[jaws-uk] Re: JFW sound not working at startup

  • From: "Mike Higgins" <m.j.higgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:35:03 +0100

Hi again all,

Further to my previous e-mails, I have tried Phil's suggestion of 
'repairing' Jaws. When I did this, an error message was displayed saying 
that "the file 'FileFinder.ini' cannot be installed because the file cannot 
be found in cabinet file 'JAWS.cab'" on either the hard drive or the CD and 
that the installation would have to close.

I next attempted to modify my installation, again using the CD. I actually 
made no changes using 'custom install', but managed successfully to complete 
that process without any error messages being displayed.

Neither the abortive 'repair' nor the 'modification' solved the problem 
however. Jaws still would not generate speech at startup although the 
Braille drivers worked fine. I still had to exit Jaws and restart it to get 
speech working.

Finally, I uninstalled Jaws (using the 'uninstall' option on the CD) only 
leaving my user settings on the machine. I then did a fresh install of Jaws, 
followed by a re-installation of the updates from the Freedom Scientific 
website. Despite doing all of these things however, I have been unable to 
debug the problem. Jaws is still only operating with Braille drivers at 
startup and I am still only able to get speech generated by closing and 
restarting Jaws.

This seems to me to suggest that whilst the problem is affecting Jaws, it 
may be some kind of system problem not directly related to the Jaws 
installation. The only clue I have (and I am not sure if this is a false 
lead or not) is the error message which came up during the initial repair 
process concerning file 'FileFinder.ini'.

I have run Winferno (A McAfee product with a registry repair function) but 
whilst identifying and fixing  a few other problems, the problem with the 
sound at Jaws startup remains.

I am running out of ideas as to what else to try! Can anyone out there help 
please?

Best wishes,

Mike Higgins,
Email: m.j.higgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Address: 1 Portland Court, Sheffield, S6 3EW, UK.
Tel (voice and, by prior arrangement, fax): +44 (0) 114 2258676
Mobile: +44 (0) 7956 856060 


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