[nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products

Mon Oct 5 12:11:33 UTC 2015

Do you need to do anything special during installation? I am about ready to install office 2013 on a windows 10 machine. Thanks.

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> On Oct 3, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Louis Maher via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Office 2013 works fine on Windows 10.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> Phone 713-444-7838
> E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 3:08 AM
> To: Steve Jacobson via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>; Steve Jacobson
> <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products
> 
> I have got information from a source who is knowledgeable that Windows
> 10 checks every piece of software on a machine for a license.  Windows
> 10 also makes microsoft office 2013 useless (unable to run).  The
> work-around is to replace microsoft office 2013 with openoffice.
> 
>> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Steve Jacobson via nfbcs wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:31:34
>> From: Steve Jacobson via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Steve Jacobson <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft 
>> products
>> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> What are you using for a synthesizer, and what sort of computer are 
>> you running on?  I really need to know your secret.  I am having some 
>> problems with office 2013 on all three of my computers.  Sometimes it 
>> is outlook restarting or not responding, sometimes it is long delays 
>> with no speech after which speech comes back and so forth.  The 
>> problems are somewhat different depending upon whether I am using JAWS 
>> or Window-Eyes, so the screen reader has something to do with it all, 
>> but it is impacting my productivity as well as adding to the stress level.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Steve Jacobson
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christopher 
>> Chaltain via nfbcs
>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:53 PM
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>> Cc: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft 
>> products
>> 
>> I haven't experienced this at all myself. I use JAWS 16, Windows 7 and 
>> Office 2013. I'll occasionally get the message that one of the Office 
>> applications has stopped responding, but no more frequently than my 
>> sighted coworkers do. I don't find JAWS 16 to be particularly unstable.
>> 
>>> On 10/01/2015 12:19 PM, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:
>>> I've had issues with Jaws16 stopping and restarting itself for no 
>>> particular reason.  Sometimes I'm in Outlook, sometimes in my 
>>> terminal emulator.  Some days it happens 3 or 4 times, and other days 
>>> not at all.  My only conclusion is Jaws 16 is not stable.
>>> Tracy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
>>> Jaquiss via nfbcs
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 11:41 AM
>>> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>>> Cc: Robert Jaquiss
>>> Subject: [nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products
>>> 
>>> Hello:
>>> 
>>>      I have been having considerable trouble with JAWS crashing when 
>>> using Microsoft Word and sometimes Explorer.
>>> I usually run JAWS 16 and have Word 365. The Word version is a 32 bit 
>>> version on a 64 bit machine. I have also had problems with JAWS 16 
>>> and Word
>>> 2013 on my home machine. I have observed that JAWS 15 is sometimes 
>>> more stable. Have others on this list had similar issues? Thank you.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Robert
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