RE: General Jaws Question
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:44:36 -0400
It sure sounds like you're turning off the power, but who knows.
If you feel like doing this experiment, with the radios on, open up
device manager and find them in the list.
turn the switch off and see if they stay there or disappear.
thanks.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:30 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, I have turned off the little switch on the front of my
> computer that
> turns off all the radios. I don't know if this is the same
> thing or not.
>
> Karl
>
> ____________________
>
> Karl Smith
> Access Technology Specialist
> Axis
> 4304 South El Camino St.
> Taylorsville, Utah 84119
>
> Phone: 866-824-7885
> Fax: 866-824-7885
> E-mail: karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Life is one dumb thing after another....Love is two dumb
> things after each
> other.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chip Orange
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:01 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
> How are you disabling them? Could it be you're not turning them off,
> but simply stopping them from making connections? On my dell
> I actually
> turn the power to the radios off, but your device has to have power
> management enabled for it in order to do this. turning off the power
> unloads the driver, and you can see the device disappear from the
> devices list of the device manager when you do this.
>
> the support tech at jaws said I certainly wasn't the first to
> have this
> problem.
>
> here's an fyi which made my problem much worse:
>
> every time I reactivated, it went through the process ok, and said it
> worked, and reduced my activation count on the server, but jaws didn't
> save the activation information on the laptop!!! this
> definitely was a
> vista problem, and it may be fixed in jaws 10.
>
> fs was violating a tenant of vista design, and trying to write the
> activation information in the program directories of jaws. this works
> during setup because the setup program is specially priviledged at the
> time it runs, but when doing it afterwards, vista prevents you or jaws
> from making changes in the program files directory, and jaws wasn't
> reporting an error when it could not save the activation info.
>
> The only solution is to take ownership of the program files\freedom
> scientific directory away from the system and give it to your account
> before attempting activation. Yes, I was using an administrator
> account.
>
> that coupled with the 8 activations I needed really caused me
> headaches
> for a long time.
>
> Chip
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Chip Orange
> Database Administrator
> Florida Public Service Commission
>
> Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (850) 413-6314
>
> (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
> necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Karl Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:22 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
>
>
> Yes this is a Vista Ultimate machine.
>
>
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________
>
>
>
> Karl Smith
>
> Access Technology Specialist
>
> Axis
>
> 4304 South El Camino St.
>
> Taylorsville, Utah 84119
>
>
>
> Phone: 866-824-7885
>
> Fax: 866-824-7885
>
> E-mail: karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> Life is one dumb thing after another....Love is two dumb things
> after each other.
>
>
>
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Chip Orange
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:30 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
>
>
> Is it running vista though? as I said, the tech seemed to
> indicate this was a vista only problem, but didn't realize until I
> explained it to him, that with vista the devices actualy
> disappear from
> your device list when made inactive.
>
>
>
> Chip
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Chip Orange
> Database Administrator
> Florida Public Service Commission
>
> Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (850) 413-6314
>
> (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do
> not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
> Commission.)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:14 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
> I am surprised to hear this as I have a Lenovo X61
> laptop and I turn the blue tooth and other radios on and off all the
> time and have never been asked to reactivate my JAWS.
>
>
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________
>
>
>
> Karl Smith
>
> Access Technology Specialist
>
> Axis
>
> 4304 South El Camino St.
>
> Taylorsville, Utah 84119
>
>
>
> Phone: 866-824-7885
>
> Fax: 866-824-7885
>
> E-mail: karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> Life is one dumb thing after another....Love is two dumb
> things after each other.
>
>
>
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chip Orange
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:42 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: General Jaws Question
>
>
>
> just an fyi that I found the hard way,
>
>
>
> if it's possible for you to deactivate hardware
> temporarily, say turning off a wifi card, this will also
> trigger jaws to
> think you've got a different pc. this seems to be a problem
> mostly for
> laptop users with vista, as it appears hardware which is turned off
> under vista actually disappears from the device list because
> it's driver
> is unloaded.
>
>
>
> since I have a wifi card, a bluetooth card, and a hard
> wired ethernet option, jaws required me to activate *eight* different
> times to cover all the possibilities of hardware configurations!!! :(
> since fs will only give you 3 activations at a time, this
> took weeks to
> resolve.
>
>
>
> this is unacceptible to me as who knows where you might
> be when some hardware change happens to your pc; you may be away from
> the internet, or out of activations at the fs web site.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Chip Orange
> Database Administrator
> Florida Public Service Commission
>
> Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (850) 413-6314
>
> (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author
> and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
> Commission.)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From:
> jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> Sharon Hooley
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:49 AM
> To: Jaws Users Group
> Subject: General Jaws Question
>
> Hi!
>
>
>
> A computer guy came to my house yesterday and
> put in a DVD drive in for me, and may have reactivated my
> printer. Now,
> when I boot up, Jaws prompts me with "activation". How do I
> get that to
> stop?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Come inside where...Is it hot or cool?
>
>
>
> http://www.MyPowerMall.com/biz/home/52721
>
>
>
> Sharon
>
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