Re: KillJaws
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:45:26 -0700
Gerald,
thanks. I'm not sure how often I've been in this exact situation, if ever,
but after you and Robert have explained what kind of situation merits the
use of this batch command, I'll try to recognize that kind of situation, and
I'll have created a way to run the command.
Why do you call it a desktop shortcut? If you mean an icon, that I can
understand,though if I were without benefit of speech I'd hope to use a
unique first letter for the name of the icon so I could activate it.
And if what's meant is actually a hotkey, possibly established in the
properties for such a shortcut icon, you wouldn't need to be at the desktop
to use it. So do you mean the icon, or do you mean a hotkey?
Also, in a crash that includes losing speech, what are you supposed to do
once you've executed this batch file? Restart your computer, if an actual
system crash is what's happened? Or just restart Jaws? And, not trying to be
snarkey, but are the people discussing this able to tell whether it's only
Jaws that's failed or if their computer needs rebooting or just one
application is shutting down and asking you to send an error message? I
can't read those dialogues if speech goes out, but I can tell whether it's
just a program that's died on me or the computer's actually hung.
thanks. Just trying to figure out exactly what kind of situation this is
meant for.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: KillJaws
Kill Jaws is a desktop shortcut that invokes the XP system utility
"taskkill" to forcibly close JAWS after a crash that results in loss of
speech. Many times when JAWS crashes, an error message is displayed on
screen which blocks JAWS from closing with the normal Insert + F4 command.
Kill Jaws eliminates this problem by closing Jaws without having to respond
to the error message. To create the shortcut, use the following target
address:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskkill.exe /f /im jfw.exe
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: KillJaws
> Gerald,
>
> I must have missed something. What is Kill Jaws?
>
> thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "JFW list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:48 PM
> Subject: KillJaws
>
>
>
> I just had a JAWS crash, and Kill Jaws worked like a charm. Very handy
> when
> sighted assistance is not available.
>
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