david mostgrateful will have to leave till morning now but may get help them I am wondering if the following uupset the system last week I was having partof house rewired for extra safety,the men worked hard for three days,but over weekend I heard a loud bang from a table lamp, normally the fuse just goes if the bulb goes, but this time all power was cutoff sudennly fridges freezers and of course computers I will contact the company in morning, in past I only had to change a fuse in the plug or put in another bulb, but this time all power was cut offd that is freezer fridge and of course computer,in one go, maybe the desktop did not like having the power cut suddenly ,I will get on to electricians in morning if I was away I would have returned to a defrosted freeser fridge and not any power at all the fuse box may be set to powerfully I will ask company dorothy ps many thanks dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Desktop muted Hello there; you can also create a shortcut to the, SndVol.exe on your desktop, so, you then could just press, alt+ctrl+v to do this, 1, on desktop, you need to, ctrl+spacebar, to unselect icon, 2, press applications key, arrow and enter on new sub-menu, now arrow down and enter on shortcut. 3, your being asked; Create Shortcut Create Shortcut What item would you like to create a shortcut for? This wizard helps you to create shortcuts to local or network programs, files, folders, computers, or Internet addresses. Type the location of the item: Browse... Click Next to continue. Next Cancel you need to type; SndVol now tab next press enter. 4, your now being asked; Create Shortcut Create Shortcut What would you like to name the shortcut? Type a name for this shortcut: SndVol.exe Click Finish to create the shortcut. Finish Cancel so just tab finish press enter. now, all you need to do is; create hotkey for the sndvol icon. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Desktop muted hello there; on your windows 7 machine,/desktop, you can unmute the sound by doing the following; 1, windows+r=run, 2, in the run dialog box, type, sndvol 3, tab one time you will land on, device main mute button, just press the spacebar, you should have your sound back. just alt+f4 to close the sound settings. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban To: org, jfw@freelists. Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 12:44 PM Subject: Desktop muted I am using old laptop but after the update apart from the view menu on laptop going wrong and Bill white helping me get it right My windows 7 desktop using ms outlook jaws 11 64 bit started crashing suddenly I did not the following first On loading up to desktop and hearing Jaws say clearly Jaws is ready a bell would ring,a bit like a door bell, I have not heard it before, in my ocr for example if I tip a load of tiff files into it, will digest and often I get a loud dong like a door bell It can be turned off. I have never heard Jaws however take up bell ringing. the sound has gone completely that is 2 times this desktop has done that.My old desktop that failed last year never muted, it is not just low sound I have enough sight to see the screen is busy and the jaws Blue flag is up on left side of screen last time this happened I went to garden gate and waylaid a passer by,but I do recall some kind person maybe David whitehead sending in instructions on how to get sound back, I wonder also if the patches cause this it is second time dell has lost sound and I do not like the crash,I run all systems which give a clean bill of health at least the action center does and Ms essentials Dorothy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3075 - Release Date: 08/16/10 07:35:00