Re: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:36:35 -0500 (CDT)
Not doubting you, Chris, just trying to learn, could you give some reasons
for your preference? Maybe I should be preferring it too.
Bruce
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Chris Skarstad wrote:
> Hi Bruce. Yeah that does seem to be the case, oddly enough.I think that so
> many people just use Windows messenger because it comes with xp but I
> prefer msn myself.
>
>
> At 08:25 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
>
>> I'm just glad that Windows Messenger seems uneffected by all this.
>>
>> Bruce
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>> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Chris Skarstad wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> Precisely! and that, my friends is what will not read using JAWS 6.10, the
>>> version released today. The contact list window that lists all your
>>> contacts reads perfectly. However, the window that pops up when initiating
>>> a conversation is where the trouble starts. I can read what I want to type
>>> to the person and proofread it for errors, but when I send the message to
>>> them, I can *not* read my response to them and any subsequent messages
>>> sent in that window. So when I was testing it with a friend, I could not
>>> read any of his responses.
>>> I now know what users of windows 98 felt like when they upgraded to JAWS
>>> 6. Very frustrating. So, going back to 6.0 seems to have fixed the problem,
>>> but I would sure like to know why the hell it works with 6, but not 6.1
>>> when others have made it work just fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 05:32 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> You said you have two windows in MSN 6.2? I have only one... the
>>>> conversation window.
>>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks; Gene
>>>>
>>>> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:29 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Well, I'm glad it worked for you, because it sure as hell wouldn't work
>>>>> for
>>>>> me. I'm wondering why it is that it didn't work with 6.1 when it worked
>>>>> with 6.0? Did FS make some other kind of change that may work on some
>>>>> systems but not others? I'm really not desperately needing to use
>> JAWS 6.1
>>>>> for anything, i mean 6.0 works just fine for me and does absolutely
>>>>> everything I need to do so I'm not mad about that, but I'm just trying to
>>>>> figure out what the cause of it might be and if there's a fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> At 05:23 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have also installed the upgrade on an XP Home system and find no
>> problem
>>>>>> with MSN6.2, it runs just fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks; Gene
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:01 PM
>>>>>> Subject: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all! I was really excited about the new update to 6.1 so I
>>>>>>> downloaded
>>>>>>> and installed it right away. The install went as smooth as you like,
>>>>>>> everything was cool. So, I murged my settings with 6 and then went to
>>>>>>> test
>>>>>>> things out. I am sad to say that, for whatever reason, msn messenger
>>>>>>> 6.2
>>>>>>> would not work on my system here. I could read the input window, in
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>> words I could read what I was typing, but the history window would not
>>>>>>> read
>>>>>>> at all. Nothing, zip, absolutely silent!
>>>>>>> Well, being a former beta tester, I figured, Ok, I'll quit 6.1 and
>>>>>>> re-launch 6.0 and see if it works there. Well, to my shock and
>>>>>>> amazement,
>>>>>>> msn 6.2 didn't work with that either! I was really frazzled now. So,
>>>>>>> I did a repair on 6 thinking that would work, but no dice. Still same
>>>>>>> condition as before, I could read what I wrote, but not what other
>>>>>>> people
>>>>>>> wrote to me. Well, to make a long story very short, I ended up having
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> scrap everything and re-installing JAWS 6, and I was even asked to
>>>>>>> re-activate. I have sent in a request to have my count reset, so
>>>>>>> hopefully
>>>>>>> they'll do that in a few days. I'm just really upset that the whole
>>>>>>> upgrade
>>>>>>> process didn't work the way it was advertised to.
>>>>>>> So, if you're using MSN Messenger 6.2 with XP Home, be careful! Install
>>>>>>> this newly updated version at your own risk. If it works for you,
>>>>>>> fantastic. If not, stick to 6 until FS can get their *** together.
>>>>>>> What's interesting is I have friends using XP Pro and the update works
>>>>>>> flawlessly, so go figure. Anyways, there's the report. I've only
>>>>>>> rebooted
>>>>>>> this computer about 5 times now, and I've finally got everything
>>>>>>> working
>>>>>>> again, so I'm really just thinking I'll stick with 6.0 for now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks guys
>>>>>>> The rather frazzled Chris
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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