[Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of

[David Andrews]

JAWS 10 was never designed to work with Windows 
7.  This could be causing some of your problems.

Dave

At 11:09 PM 8/24/2012, you wrote:
>Ok. Phew! I'm not the only one experiencing 
>issues with JAWS not responding. I think it's a 
>number of things with my computer. #1. I have 
>JAWS 10 on a windows 7 laptop. #2. I let a 
>friend talk me into downloading all these 
>different programs that will help speed up my 
>computer. It helped, but started causing 
>problems. It is quite frustrating to hear a 
>chimed dialog box but nothing is said. The other 
>day, as it was starting up, it had a starting 
>windows repair window open saying not to turn 
>off or restart the computer, but JAWS didn't say 
>that. My 7 year old son read it to me and asked 
>me if I wanted him to close the window. The 
>computer would have been sitting here with that 
>window open and I would have been getting upset 
>and worried that my computer wasn't starting up 
>properly. Right now, I have a window open for an 
>adobe flash player update, but I don't know how 
>to get to it. Occasionally JAWS will say, 
>"update ready to be installed" and that's it. I 
>have issues with Fire Fox as well. Every time I 
>open it, I have to use the "alt tab" command 
>twice in order to use the program. Sometimes, 
>when I hit the applications key and scroll up to 
>"send to," it will stop talking before or just 
>after I reach it. IDK if there is an auto 
>correct in Word 2007, but, I'll be typing along 
>and I'll want to go back, re read what I just 
>typed, and somehow my sentences were broken up 
>and rearranged. It does it in my email as well. 
>I use Windows Live Mail because I don't know how 
>to use gmail on the site. -----Original 
>Message----- From: Sherry Gomes Sent: Friday, 
>August 24, 2012 10:31 PM To: 'Blind Talk Mailing 
>List' Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm 
>tired of I have that happen a lot with internet 
>explorer 9, and it is the application, not jaws, 
>because when everything starts up again, there's 
>a message saying internet explorer stopped 
>working. Outlook too, oh man, it hangs a lot, 
>just freezes and locks up the whole darn 
>computer, particularly first thing in the 
>morning. -----Original Message----- From: 
>blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
>Of Mike Freeman Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 
>8:50 PM To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List' Subject: 
>Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of Perhaps 
>the application you're using has stopped 
>responding for some reason. I find this happens 
>periodically in windows 7. Mike -----Original 
>Message----- From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
>Of Nikki Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:27 PM 
>To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org Subject: [Blindtlk] One 
>thing I'm tired of     In the middle of a task, 
>command, or navigating the net, JAWS just stops 
>talking, sometimes with a stutter or short 
>muffle. IDK what it�s doing or why, but there 
>are times when I end up turning offf or 
>restarting. Sometimes I can get JAWS back on. 
>Any thoughts as to why this is happening? 
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