I am running jaws 5.0.8.44 with windows XP-home edition on a Dell Dimension 4600. I had a similar problem with jaws not automatically reading the body of an outlook express message after installing sp-2. This feature had been working fine just before installing sp-2. Now the strange thing was that on this computer I have 2 profiles and in my wife's profile, the body of the message was being read with no problems, just as before. I noticed that there was a box checked under international settings that was checked in her profile which reads "use default encoding for all incoming messages." I went back to my profile and this box was not checked, nor was the message still not being automatically read. I then checked this box under international settings and the message was read automatically as it should be. I then unchecked this box as I believe it should normally be unchecked anyway and outlook express continued to work fine, I.e. message was being read automatically. I spent a whole day on trying to solve this problem and very carefully check and unchecked a number of settings, documenting my changes as I went. I have experienced one or two other quirky issues as well but sp-2 seems to have sorted these out on its own. Finally if I left the computer running and a program open, after about 20 minutes, my computer would go into hibernation mode. I went to control panel, power settings and hibernation mode was checked. I unchecked this and this problem seems to have been resolved. Also, my screen-saver setting had been changed from none to XP. Again I changed this back to none and this may have been causing jaws to lose focus and put me back on the log-on screen. I will experiment more with these settings in the coming days and maybe people have feedback on these settings. Also, both myself and my wife had problems with a few items disappearing from our desk tops. Also, yesterday an additional item was added for about 6 hours automatically then it automatically disappeared-- E.G. 21 items, to 22 items and back to 21 items. The desktop wizard had not run during this time. Now I know some computers can be quirky but this machine has been as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar since I set it up last January so while none of these problems was serious, it was altogether unusual for this machine to behave in such a strange manner. Nothing serious though and jaws itself appears to be working fine. jaws used to take 38 seconds to begin talking from the time I turned my computer on and it now takes 56 seconds to perform this task. I did not turn jaws off during the install. I left McAfee virus scan on. I used the download from the Microsoft site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:32 AM Subject: Re: service pack 2? >I don't know but there is already a TSN on it, smile. > Why doesn't JAWS read the body of an Outlook Express message automatically > in Window XP with Service Pack 2? (07/27/2004) > http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/BulletinView.cfm?QC=744 > Of course by now they may have corrected this and hopefully this will be > fixed with the update of Jaws 5.1. And this only seems to apply to Windows > XP Pro. > Debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:42 AM > Subject: RE: service pack 2? > > > I have it on CD but haven't installed it yet. I really doubt it will > change jaws one way or the other as it is mostly a collection of > security fixes and enhancements. There are instructions to be followed > if you install it after installation to avoid problems (mostly to do > with internet use). One of them is to disable any software firewalls > you may have installed. > > Hth, > > Chip > > =20 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 >> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dennis >> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:08 AM >> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: service pack 2? >>=20 >> has anybody downloaded the service pack 2 for xp from windows=20 >> update yet? i have been holding off on it until this weekend=20 >> to listen to the computer shows to see if there are problems=20 >> with it. if anyone has installed it does jaws work better or smoother? >> -- >> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to=20 >> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the=20 >> subject line. >> Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw >>=20 >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from=20 >> the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them=20 >> to the list. 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