[vicsireland] Re: Help find Insert key
- From: "albertbrown" <albertbrown@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:23:25 +0100
Hello Robbie,
I to have a Toshiba laptop , and my insert key is the second key on the
right-hand side of the spacebar.
albert ----- Original Message -----
From: Sandberg, Robert
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Help find Insert key
Hi Paul!
Thanks for the forward regarding my sticky key problem. I'll try that.
Regarding the Insert key, that's just it. There is no key that acts as the
Insert key. I think, or rather I hope, it's a settings issue. The second from
the top right would depend on the keyboard layout of the laptop. On my old one
that would in deed have been correct. But the layouts on laptops differ a lot.
In fact the keyboard of my new one must have been designed by a mouse fondler
and no mistake. Some of the classic positions of keys were discarded to the
effect that formerly single-handed keystrokes now have to be executed with both
hands.
Anyway, I'm still open to suggestions as to the Insert key.
Cheers,
Robbie
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Dromey
Sent: Montag, 16. Oktober 2006 15:42
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Help find Insert key
Hello Robbie.
You can use either the second key from top right, or the caps lock key as
insert for jaws. I had the exact same problem with the Control key and got a
number of suggestions from this list, some of which I've pasted below. I
still occasionally get the problem with my laptop and haven't put Paul
Traynor's advice, as immediately below, into action to date - but I'm going to
do it now! So, thanks for the reminder.
Paul Dromey
Hi Paul,
You are having a problem which I have seen affect some keyboards and jaws.
It can be fixed by renaming a jaws keyboard driver.
1. Go to "start menu, search".
2. Tab to the button that says "show all files and folders" and hit the
spacebar.
3. Now in the resulting edit box type in the following name: jfwkeybd.vxd
and press the "enter key".
4. Wait a while as win xp is slow at coming back with results. Tab when you
think it should be finished until you come to the results listbox.
5. There should be at least one file there of the same name you typed into
your search
6. Arrow to this file to select it and then press the "F2 key" to activate
the rename box.
7. Now give it the following name: jfwkeybd.vx and press the enter key to
complete.
Notice that we left off the "D" at the end of the filename. Thisi is so that
jaws no longer uses this driver.
9. Reboot the computer and see how it goes for you.
Paul.
Hi all ant thanks for all the suggestions. Yes, I noticed that tapping the
offending key a couple of times offered a temporary fix. It's unlikely that
the underside of the keys need cleaning as the laptop is new. Murphy's Law
decreed that, as soon as I posted my question to the list, the problem
promptly disappeared!
When it re-occurs, as no doubt it will, I'll get down to re-naming the file
as Paul suggests.
Thanks again.
Paul D
-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Culhane [mailto:tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 March 2006 08:09
To: vics-irl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vics-irl] Control Key Jamming
Hi,
Keys such as control, shift and alt do have a tendency to become "sticky"
on some systems running jaws.
As a result when you type other keys it appears that these keys are held
down as well.
It can be useful to tap the offending key several times to relieve the
stickyness.
If this doesn't work, try unloading and reloading jaws.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerry Ellis [mailto:gerry.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 March 2006 07:46
To: vics-irl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [vics-irl] Control Key Jamming
Hi,
I can suggest two possible solutions.
Firstly,take off the two control keys and make sure that the spaces
underneath are clean.
Secondly, I noticed this a couple of times on a laptop I used to have. I
found that when it happened, if I hit the control key twice, the problem
disappeared. Mind you, it re-appeared again sometime later. This was one of
those things that happened now and again and I never worked out why.
I hope this helps.
Take care,
Gerry Ellis
t/a Feel The BenefIT
Tel (+353-1) 282-7791
Mob (085) 716-8665
email gerry.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you don't know where you're going,
How will you know when you get there?
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Dromey" <pdromey@xxxxxx>
To: <vics-irl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: [vics-irl] Control Key Jamming
> Hi Vicsters
>
> I've recently got a laptop and am repeatedly experiencing an annoying
> problem I've also occasionally come across on my old desktop. All of
> a sudden, jaws tells me that a command, for example spacebar or enter,
> becomes control spacebar or control enter, resulting in a different
> command than that which I'm trying to achieve. The problem goes away
> temporarily if I hold down the control key with a letter, but comes
> back again pretty quickly.
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sandberg, Robert
Sent: 16 October 2006 10:00
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Help find Insert key
Hi folks!
I've got a new Toshiba laptop and can't work out how to activate the JAWS
Insert key.
Strangely, the function key, together with the p or the semicolon switches
between the JAWS and PC cursor, but it doesn't act as the Insert key in any
other JAWS key stroke.
Can someone tell me what to do? Needless to say, I've got the Insert mode
option checked.
And there's another thing that's new on me. The alt-gr key seams to act
like a caps lock on the control key. So every time I type an at for instance,
the following keystrokes have the same effect as if they had been pressed
together with control. Can that be deactivated?
Cheers,
Robbie
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