[vicsireland] Re: my poor PC!
- From: "Darragh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:50:33 -0000
Interesting.
What about any recent installations or removals on the system? What about
just Windows 9X weirdness? Would doing a restore of the registry make any
difference? Might just do it. What about reinstalling Jaws?
Just a few things before jumping to such drastic measures.
In saying that though, The PC is quite old though so Paul, you might have a
good point. It could be a hardware problem.
I'd suggest starting with a reinstall of jaws though. That might do it.
Sabrina, could you get someone who is sighted to tell you if the keyboard is
acting normally when jaws is turned off?
I cant remember the exact command for restoring to an earlier version of the
registry on Windows 98 second edition but I could find it with some digging
if necessary.
Think it was scanreg /r or something like that.
That obviously would have to be run in DOS so if you need to go down that
route you might want to get a technician to do it for you on site.
Let us know how you get on.
Darragh
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: 24 November 2006 16:44
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: my poor PC!
You would know more than I do, Paul: But could it be just a video driver
issue? Or, does the mouse 'locking' have nothing to do with it? It's in a
bad way, anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lists <mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:34 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: my poor PC!
Hi,
First thing I'd do is backup anything important on that PC. Now you
should
look at the possibility of the hard drive about to fail due to wear
and
tear, boot virus attack or just viruses on the system. Is it windows
9x or
XP you have?. Next, the fan could be wearing out on the PC. If I
were you I
would take it to a PC shop straight away.
Paul.
-----Original Message-----
>From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sabrina
McKiernan
Sent: 24 November 2006 15:44
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] my poor PC!
Hi PC doctors!
IN the last week or so, I am having problems with my computer.
The poor thing is stressed out!
OK how do I explain this one?!
Do you know the sound the computer makes when the keyboard or mouse
is
locked? sort of a long clicking pressure sound. Did I explain that
well! Wow
that was good! well I am getting that computer locking sound when
computer
starts up. It comes when the windows lovely music has done its tune
and when
Jaws has started up. It only lasts a few minutes. Then the process
continues
of the desktop being launched and up comes the lovely anti-virus
icon saying
'Control Centre'
when I press start windows key, I am unable to arrow up or down
through the
menus. I do hear 'start menu'
To get in to any programme, I can only do so, by rooting jaws to PC
and
arrowing to the required programme and hitting the left mouse
button. Then I
am in.
I am able to read incoming emails for example and do word
processing. but if
I make a mistake in a document if I hit the back space key it just
says
blank, or space or some letter that I would have written a good bit
up the
document.
I am unable to left or right arrow. Jaws doesn't speak. If I do
control home
or control end I hear blank.
I can do a spell check fine. but when I am checking what I wrote in
an email
I have to wait until it is in the outbox so that I can read it and
correct
any errors.
I can read only so far with insert and down arrow. jaws starts
repeating
itself and I hear the dong from windows.
I think that is it.
Sorry for the long email.
a
and hopefully some of you will have ideas for me.
OH: I did a complete scan and no infection has shown up.
Cheers,
Sabrina and her poor PC who has the flu or is on its last legs
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