Re: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
- From: "Grant Hardy" <grant_r_hardy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:49:52 -0800
Check in the Start Menu if you can't find it on the desktop.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
>I didn't even know you could do that, where would I go to check that out?
> Troy
>
>
>
> On Thursday 3/24/2005 09:53 PM, Bruce Toews said:
>>It's starting to sound as though somewhere along the line you've defined
>>that hot key to the JAWS5 installation file, and you never undefined it.
>>
>>Bruce
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>>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Troy Burnham wrote:
>>
>> > Okay I was able to create the shortcut that time and I put it on my
>> > desktop. I rebooted after creating the shortcut and then did the hot
>> > key
>> > and it still started the Jaws 5 installation maintenance wizard, but
>> > when I
>> > unloaded Jaws again and just hit enter on the shortcut on my desktop
>> > Jaws 6
>> > started. Hmmm.
>> > Troy
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thursday 3/24/2005 09:38 PM, Grant Hardy said:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Set your shortcut to this path--including the quotes:
>> >> "C:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\6.0\jfw.exe"
>> >> Then assign the hotkey to this shortcut. If it can't find this
>> folder, are
>> >> you sure you didn't specify a different directory when you installed
>> JAWS 6?
>> >>
>> >> Good luck,
>> >>
>> >> Grant
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:24 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Grant,
>> >>> I didn't have just an add button under the start menu tab so I
>> >>> clicked on
>> >>> the customize button and found an add button there. I clicked on
>> that and
>> >>> typed Jaws6 in the box, but when I clicked the next button I got an
>> >>> error
>> >>> telling me that Jaws6 couldn't be located. I then got out and went
>> >>> back
>> >>> in
>> >>> and instead of typing Jaws6 in the box I clicked the brouse button
>> >>> and
>> >>> went
>> >>> to the Freedom Scientific folder inside of the Program Files folder
>> hoping
>> >>> to find the Jaws6 executable because I figured that's what it
>> >>> couldn't
>> >>> find
>> >>> the first time when I got the error but I couldn't find that anywhere
>> >>> either. More help please?
>> >>> Troy
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thursday 3/24/2005 09:08 PM, Grant Hardy said:
>> >>>> Hello,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Try setting your shortcut to:
>> >>>> jaws6
>> >>>> Follow these steps: press alt+enter from the taskbar and select the
>> Start
>> >>>> Menu tab. Click Add and in the "command line" box, simply type:
>> >>>> jaws6
>> >>>> Now hit enter and choose where you want this shortcut placed. When
>> you're
>> >>>> done, click the Advanced button under Start Menu. Once you've
>> >>>> navigated
>> >>>> to
>> >>>> your new shortcut, hit alt+enter and try assigning the hotkey to
>> this. If
>> >>>> it starts the installation maintenance, try running JAWS 6.0 by
>> >>>> manually
>> >>>> executing this shortcut and tell what happens.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Grant
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:37 PM
>> >>>> Subject: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Hi All,
>> >>>>> I'm trying to set alt-ctrl-J as my hot key to start Jaws 6 but no
>> >>>>> matter
>> >>>>> how I do it when I press the key combination I get the installation
>> >>>>> maintenance wizard for Jaws 5.0.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I don't keep any of my Jaws on the desktop so I go under programs
>> >>>>> to
>> >>>>> the
>> >>>>> Jaws60 submenu and the same thing happens whether I use the
>> >>>>> properties
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>> the Jaws icon in the Jaws60 submenu or whether I use the start Jaws
>> >>>>> with
>> >>>>> Eloquence icon in the tools submenu. Any ideas?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I did have alt-ctrl-J set to start Jaws 5 but I cleared it before
>> >>>>> setting
>> >>>>> it in Jaws 6, and I have deleted the hot key and rebooted and reset
>> >>>>> it
>> >>>>> and
>> >>>>> still no luck, and I'm sure that I have tried other things too that
>> >>>>> I
>> >>>>> can't
>> >>>>> think of right now. This is the first time that I have ever run
>> >>>>> across
>> >>>>> a
>> >>>>> problem like this and I always keep two versions of Jaws installed
>> >>>>> at
>> >>>>> all
>> >>>>> times. Any suggestions will be appreciated, FS told me that they
>> >>>>> would
>> >>>>> have to contact me by phone when I e-mailed them about it but
>> >>>>> although
>> >>>>> I
>> >>>>> sent back a note telling them when they can contact me I haven't
>> >>>>> heard
>> >>>>> anything yet.
>> >>>>> Troy
>> >>>>>
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