Hi Yardbird, You wrote, in part:"I didn't get that part where they say you can set up the basics right while you're installing. And I didn't even get a dialogue to choose run at startup, which I'm used to from earlier versions. Nothing. I just responded to a couple of dialogue screens, and then got a finish button. I chose to restart my system manually, because I had to answer an email." (end of quote)
The last sentence explains why you didn't get that part where you can set up the basics and choose run at startup, since these appear after you choose to restart now; at least, that's the way it worked for me.
HTH, Don----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:58 AM Subject: Need help installing Jaws 9
From everything people were saying, I thought this would be even easier thanusual. But no. I downloaded the final release from the FTP site. I click on the exec file and ran the install routine, whatever it's called now. From what people had been saying, I expected more dialogue screens then Igot. Maybe it's because I chose Typical installation? But I didn't get that part where they say you can set up the basics right while you're installing. And I didn't even get a dialogue to choose run at startup, which I'm used tofrom earlier versions. Nothing. I just responded to a couple of dialogue screens, and then got a finish button. I chose to restart my system manually, because I had to answer an email before I did anything else. So then I exited all running applications and chose restart form the shut down dialogue.The computer took not seconds but minutes to finally go of, and then several minutes more before the screen finally came back to life (I'm partial, so I could see that). I sat there waiting for it to say that Jaws was ready, but it remained silent. So I touched a reading key and it spoke. Said Task bar,which is what I was focused on. Okay, so no announcement.But by this time, I was curious enough to press insert J and look under helpto see which version had just launched. Yep. The same final update of version 8 I thought I was replacing when I did the install. Well, I'm stumped. Can anyone make sense of this scenario?Thanks. By the way, I wouldn't blame anyone for wondering if I'd clicked onthe exec file for Jaws 8 by accident, but I didn't. The voice kept saying Jaws 9 during the install. Honest. P.S. Wow. Just to check if Jaws 9 had been installed even though it hadn't launched, I went to add/remove programs in Control Panel to lsee if it was on the installed applications list. Well, not only is *it* not there, butJaws 8, which I'm using as I type this, isn't shown either! Oddly, Jaws 7 ison the list, which is fine but irrelevant to my present situation. Can anyone help me make sense of this?whiich loo -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo 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/jfwIf 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
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