[jaws-uk] Re: Jaws with an external device
- From: "keith" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:25:38 -0000
Dear Doris,
Many thanks for this suggestion. It sounds like a very good idea.
With best wishes,
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chipmunks
Sent: 01 December 2005 02:06
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws with an external device
Why don't you ask FS or your reseller for a hardware dongle
authorization? A hardware dognle can be used on any computer
regardless of the hardware configuration as long s the computer in
question has a freee usb port for the dongle to plug into.
hth
Doris At 08:52 PM 11/30/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Andrew,
>
>Many thanks for your reply.
>
>When I upgraded my computer much earlier in the year, I just knew that Jaws
>would throw a wobbly, and it sure did. I e-mailed Dennis at S&S, and he
>confirmed that Jaws wouldn't recognise my new hardware configuration.
>
>I had to re-register, and fortunately I had a life left.
>
>Before installing this new back-up hard drive, I e-mailed Dennis at S&S,
and
>asked if I'd have the same problem. He confirmed that it would be so. But
to
>make sure I had a life left, he authorised this with FS.
>
>Sure enough, when I booted up with this new hard drive attached, Jaws
>dutifully told me I was in 40-minute mode, and did I wish to register. I
saw
>no alternative, so downloaded another life.
>
>But, as mentioned in my earlier note, the whole purpose of this new hard
>drive is that it is portable, and my computer should be able to be used
with
>or without it.
>
>I really think this new system is pretty awful, although I guess I can see
>no alternative. Mind you, a friend tells me there is no such registration
>with Window Eyes.
>
>I'll try what George suggests, and boot up without the external disk at a
>time when I can definitely get in touch.
>
>With very best wishes,
>
>Keith
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson
>Sent: 30 November 2005 18:03
>To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws with an external device
>
>
>Hi Keith,
>
>I don't think this is right. I have used external disks on this machine
>before and they work fine. However, what I have found is sometimes when
>starting JFW, I get a message to say it is not registered and have to
>restart it again.
>
>With all the mess this system has caused me - eg, not being able to go
>through my connection for some very obscure reason, and also despite me
>reinstalling on exactly the same hardware, the system says I have new
>hardware and I loose a key, I am seriously thinking of not renewing my
>SLA as it has now expired, and moving over to Window-eyes or Hal.
>
>Andrew.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of keith
>Sent: 30 November 2005 16:30
>To: Jaws Group
>Subject: [jaws-uk] Jaws with an external device
>
>Dear All,
>
>Jaws 7, XP home.
>
>I wonder if someone can please help with a query I have.
>
>A little while ago I bought an external hard drive for my PC. It
>connects
>via a U S B port.
>
>When I connected it, and logged on the computer, Jaws recognised that my
>hardware had changed, and insisted that I re-register. This I did, and
>all
>is now fine.
>
>I also installed the software to run this external hard drive on my
>wife's
>laptop computer, so that I can in effect connect the drive to her
>computer.
>
>However, if I disconnect the drive from my computer, and then boot up my
>computer, will Jaws again insist that I re-register, thinking that once
>again the hardware configuration has changed? I sincerely hope not, as
>this
>would be a great inconvenience. The hard drive, of its very nature, is a
>portable device, and there may be many times when I wish to use the
>computer
>with the drive not connected.
>
>Does anyone please know the situation over this matter?
>
>I would welcome some words of comfort.
>
>With many thanks.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Keith
>
>
>
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