CMOS = Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor.
I should have been more careful in my terminology. I actually meant to say
"BIOS" , which are the settings that are written to CMOS chips and backed up
by your computer lithium battery, and are used in the very first part of the
boot process. The BIOS setup screen is available by pressing F2 on some
computers in the first few seconds after power-on or restart, and long
before any speech is loaded -- therefore we have no speech and need someone
else's eyes to make changes.
I'm sorry for being obtuse using "CMOS" when I meant "BIOS".
Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
In IBM PC Compatible computers, the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
also known as the System BIOS, is a de facto standard defining a firmware
interface.
The BIOS is boot firmware, designed to be the first code run by a
PC when powered on. The initial function of the BIOS is to identify, test,
and initialize system devices such as the video display card,
hard disk , and floppy disk
and other hardware. This is to prepare the machine into a known state, so
that
software stored on compatible media can be loaded, executed, and given
control of the PC.
This process is known as booting, or booting up, which is short for
bootstrapping.
BIOS programs are stored on a chip and are built to work with various
devices that make up the complementary chipset of the system. They provide a
small
library of basic input/output functions that can be called to operate and
control the peripherals such as the keyboard, text display functions and so
forth.
In the IBM PC and AT, certain peripheral cards such as hard-drive
controllers and video display adapters carried their own BIOS extension
ROM , which provided additional functionality.
Operating systems
and executive software, designed to supersede this basic firmware
functionality, will provide replacement software interfaces to applications.
Dave
From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69mach1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 16:34
Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
Hi All,
For those of you having Jaws focus issues. Are any of you running a program
named Autosizer? If you are, Autosizer has been known to cause focus issues
from time to time. If you are running Autosizer, try uninstalling &
reinstalling the program. If the problem is Autosizer this is the only way
to correct / diagnose the issue if using Autosizer. Also, what does CMOS
stand for? Thanks much, take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Menges" <c.menges@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
hi,
Sorry to be dence, do I just type the whole line as the icon? That's a
great idea.
Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
> Christine,
>
> I have an icon on my desktop called "Kill JAWS" and it's the only icon
> beginning with the letter "K". This is a simple taskkill command to
> surgically remove JAWS with no prompts.
>
> Once removed I then launch JAWS again with Alt+Ctrl+J.
>
> Saved me a lot of grief.
>
> The command for my machine is:
>
> %windir%\system32\taskkill.exe /f /im jfw.exe
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christine Menges" <c.menges@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 15:44
> Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
>
>
> Hi,
> I shut my internal mouse off for that reason and it didn't change a
> thing. I thought I was going crazy. This problem is very annoying. I
> have jaws 10 with windows xp.
> On a slightly separate issue, sometimes jaws locks the key board up and
> only the tab key will work but not the alt or the control or other
> function
> keys. If I don't have sighted assistance to get rid of jaws, because of
> course the alt f4 won't work, I have to just do a hard boot. This seems
> to
> happen after I lose focus a couple of times. Does this happen to anyone
> else?
>
> Christine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alice dampman" <alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
>
>
>>I find this happens often when I'm using the laptop, and I sort of assumed
>>it was because of the mouse pad (the kind that sighted people use with
>>their fingertip) being right in the middle that somehow, my fingers
>>reaching for keys or the space bar or alt key or something are triggering
>>that mouse pad thing.
>> Does that make any sense?
>> Alice
>> alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:29 PM
>> Subject: RE: jaws 10 looses focus
>>
>>
>>> Funnily enough, I've never had the sticky keys issue. I'm not exactly
>>> sure
>>> what's causing the other issue, though granted that's largely because I
>>> haven't bothered to troubleshoot it.
>>>
>>> James,
>>> List Admin
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Dave Carlson
>>> Sent: June 12, 2009 4:25 PM
>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
>>>
>>> James,
>>>
>>> Hmmm. Doesn't happen to me except very rarely with JAWS 9. Perhaps this
>>> is
>>> also related to the video chip involved?
>>>
>>> I do always have (and will probably always have) the issue with sticky
>>> keys,
>>> such as Alt or Ctrl being "stuck" and needing to press rapidly to clear.
>>> I
>>> guess this was never resolved since back in the days of JAWS 3 and 4.
>>> Ah,
>>> well...
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 13:13
>>> Subject: RE: jaws 10 looses focus
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure it's a JAWS 10 issue. I have the same problem from time to
>>> time, often when replying to or otherwise sending an email. Same thing
>>> occasionally when closing IE, and other programs. I'm running the latest
>>> build of JAWS 9.
>>>
>>> James,
>>> List Admin
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Dave Carlson
>>> Sent: June 12, 2009 2:39 PM
>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
>>>
>>> Yep. One of the reasons I dumped JAWS 10 and went back to JAWS 9. I was
>>> constantly having problems in IE as well.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ann Byrne" <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:45
>>> Subject: Re: jaws 10 looses focus
>>>
>>>
>>> JAWS 10 with Windows XP and Office 2000 and Eudora does the same
>>> thing. It's pretty casual about what it reads--often the screen I
>>> just closed, as though it were still open.
>>> At 10:01 AM 6/12/2009, you wrote:
>>>>Jaws professional 10.0.1511 with Vista ultimate and Office 2007.
>>>>
>>>>While in Outlook I respond to a message.
>>>>Hit alt s to send and Jaws leaves me at a blank screen.
>>>>I always have to alt tab back into outlook.
>>>>
>>>>This strange occurance also happens in several other applications.
>>>>It especially occurs when I alt f4 out of a program.
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>>The difference between God and I
>>>>is that God never thinks He is me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>
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>>
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