[nfbcs] A useful trick

[Gary Wunder]

You can kill Jaws with jaws key, Windows F4 and then restart. That works
some of the time. In the times when it doesn't and you cannot get a restart,
it at least gets Jaws out of the way to let you start other screen reading
solutions.

Gary


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:47 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] A useful trick

The difference I see is that if you have lost speech on a screen reader such
as JFW, you don't know if it is still running or not.  The shortcut key
generally won't do a thing if JFW has gone silent but is still running.  I'm
not sure, though, if there is an advantage to this over putting NVDA on the
computer and assigning a shortcut to it.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:31:04 -0800, Jim Barbour wrote:

>Hey Tracy,

>How is this different than simply assigning a shortcut key to JAWS so 
>you can restart JAWS from the keyboard when it craps out?

>Thanks,

>Jim

>On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:24:39AM -0500, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>> Lately, Jaws has been getting stuck or shutting down unexpectedly, 
>> leaving me with no idea what's happening.  But, following 
>> instructions on the NVDA website, I put NVDA on a flash drive with 
>> autolauncher.  When Jaws craps out, I plug in my NVDA drive, and in a 
>> few seconds I have speech again and can figure out what the problem 
>> is.  I'm finding it very handy, and thought I'd share.
>> Tracy
>> 
>> 
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