I believe, scanreg /restore is the command to restore the Registry in Win98 to a previous state. (A maximum of five 'restore points'?) ----- Original Message ----- From: Darragh To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:50 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: my poor PC! 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 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/548 - Release Date: 23/11/06 __________ NOD32 1881 (20061124) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 1882 (20061124) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com