Re: JAWS Help Going On-Line

  • From: "meangene" <meangene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:45:00 -0500

I had that problem when ny son updated to A O L 9. When I happily removed A
O L, I also removed the problem.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Quanin" <quanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: JAWS Help Going On-Line


> JAWS shouldn't be forcing yoru computer to go online, as it has no reason
> to. I can think of 2 things that possibly could be happening to your
> computer during that time. You either 1: have a program running that wants
> to automatically connect your computer to the internet (some programs,
such
> as MSN, by default want to connect automatically to their servers), or 2:
> In activating the JAWS help feature, you may be inadvertantly activating
> some other feature as well. Could it, perhaps, be that for some reason
your
> computer is configured to automatically start up the internet when you
> press f1 in the JAWS window (I'm assuming this is what you're doing)? If
> so, try going into it via the help menu in that window instead.
>
> James
>
> At 02:39 PM 03/01/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >Does anyone know why, when I activate the JAWS help in either 5.0 or 4.1
> >my computer goes on-line?
> >Why is it necessary for the computer to be on-line when viewing the
> >built-in help that JAWS provides?
> >IS FS monitoring when help is being used?  If so, why?
> >Thanks.
> >Dan
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