[nfbcs] Frequent JAWS crashes when using Microsoft products

Louis Maher ljmaher at swbell.net
Sat Oct 3 18:41:49 UTC 2015


Office 2013 works fine on Windows 10.


Regards
Louis Maher
Phone 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net

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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:

> 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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