Hi, Jim, I had this trouble with my netbook and all I did was press and hold the power button in to shut it off and then turned it back on I know that you have to reboot your computer but it does unfreeze jaws. In a message dated 6/19/2010 4:50:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Dorothy.ingram-gorban@xxxxxxxxx writes: oh howawful but lucky you have a sighted person around, other day I went to waylay a stranger in street after a visitor who wanted to see how jaws worked muted my dell windows 7, I was lucky nice man came in and he said he clicked on a picture of a trumpet,yesterday a visitor said "cannot se any trumpet, david whitehead on this list gave me some tips. I know it is not wise to beg strangers to help On the other hand I think a well known female writer once said " in life I have always relied upon the kindness of strangers, forget her name, think she was either a poet or married once to Hemingway, if the latter she would have needed a kind stranger! sorry moderator dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 4:13 AM Subject: Re: Asus 1001 PX EEE netbook > Hmm. does it have a mute button. I did that with my laptop once. I > was sure I'd ruined it. Didn't sleep the whole night cause it was my > work computer and I'd hauled off and messed it up, I thought. Turns > out I'd hit the mute button by mistake since it was righ tnext to the > power button and the dern thing wouldn't talk, of course. Had the > wife look at it and she figured it out pretty quick. Have you had a > sighted friend look at it? Is there any vibration from the machine > itself? Does narrator come up? Hit left windows+u to launch > narrator. Least, that's what you do in windows xp, not sure about > windows 7. > > Hope that helps > > Alex > > > On 6/18/10, Jim L <jimscave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Heya folks, >> >> Am in a panic mode this morning installed jaws 9 on my Asus netbook last >> night so far so good till this morning when I left it on for awhile and >> now >> its gone all quiet no sound like its in some sleep mode thing but it >> doesnt >> matter whether I press space, enter or the power button nothing seems to >> wake it, is there a special key combo I need to wake it back up? >> >> cheers, >> >> Jim >> > -- > JFW related links: > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > Scripting mailing list: > http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > JFW List instructions: > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > Alternative archives located at: > http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.829 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2946 - Release Date: 06/18/10 07:35:00 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx