RE: more on the msn messenger issue...
- From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:35:13 -0800
Hi, sorry but msn 6.2 does work just fine with jaws using xp or 2k.=20
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Subject: Re: more on the msn messenger issue...
Using MSN 5 is no longer an option. Microsoft made the upgrade to 6.2=20
mandatory for security reasons. 6.2 does not work with JAWS, unless one =
is=20
using Windows XP or Windows 2K.
Bruce
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chris Skarstad wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I know this subject has been talked to death on the list so a thousand =
> apologies for bringing it up, yet again. I have a friend who needs=20
> help but isn't on this list so I felt the best coarse of action would=20
> be to ask here and hopefully one of you can assist me.
>
> Ok, my friend is using windows 98 Se, and JAWS 6.0, just upgraded to=20
> JAWS 6 yesterday. a couple of days before she upgraded, she was=20
> prompted by msn to upgrade to 6.2 which she did. At that time, she was =
> using JAWS version 5.10, which by all the accounts I've heard does not =
> seem to work under windows 98 with msn 6.2. It does with xp, but not=20
> with windows 98. What we want to do is to figure out if it's in faact =
> possible for her to role back to msn messenger 5 and still have things =
> work again? When she couldn't read any of the windows in the program, =
> she uninstalled msn 6.2 via add/remove programs. Now I am told that=20
> there are some files left over, so msn really never gets removed, it=20
> either re-installs itself on reboot, or the remnants of it are somehow =
> there so she couldn't get rid of it after uninstalling it.
>
>
> She didn't have a copy of it because msn automatically upgraded her=20
> to 6.2. So, I downloaded the installer for msn 6.2 for windows 98 and =
> sent it to her as an attachment, and she installed it and it gave her=20
> an error message. It said she was missing a resource. Just what=20
> resource we don't know yet.
>
> So, this is wear we are stuck. Is it in fact possible to remove what's =
> left of msn 6.2 and go back to msn 5 that she was using before? or=20
> will msn prompt her to upgrade to 6.2 before she can sign in? i know=20
> some xp users were prompted to upgrade which I did, but I'm not sure=20
> if this thing is operating system specific. Another thought I have=20
> is, she could possibly use miranda IM instead, but again I do not know =
> how well the scripts work with JAWS 6 with 98 as I have xp here. So if =
> any of you guys have any information at all to pass along, you can=20
> either contact me here or privately at
>
> toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks all.
>
>
>
>
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