Hi tthere I have kind of the same problem, when I installed Macafee security virus protection, it seems to rise hell with my system until it has been on a while. I think you might try to unload some of the stuff start over again. I am going to do the same thing with mine sometime this summer unload Macafee clean it all out install Norton. I think the more stuff you have running on your system, the more trouble your going to have. David Hutchins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Epley" <gregepley@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Install of MSN Messenger 5 causing JAWS problems > Hi, > After reading recently that MSN Messenger was a good accessible messaging > client for Windows XP, I downloaded the XP version from the JFWLite Programs > page, along with the scripts. > > I am running JAWS 5.00.844 on Windows XP Home with all the critical updates > and SP1 installed, and experiencing no other system problems prior to this > install of MSN Messenger 5.0. > > I installed the scripts and then ran the MSN Messenger 5 setup program. > Everything went fine with that. > > After MSN Messenger was able to start, I went to the Sign In and began the > passport account setup. > > From reading the wizard pages, it sounded like I could register my regular > ISP email account rather than setting up a Hotmail account. > > While trying to select a different radio button in the cluster on one of the > wizard pages to let me do this, I heard the Windows Default beep sound and > JAWS went mute. I've had this happen before and after starting Narrator, > discovered that JAWS had an application error with the Send/Don't Send > buttons. > > I gracefully shut down the MSN Messenger wizard and was finally able to get > the system shut down. > > At restart JAWS started as usual. I again tried to go through the wizard > and JAWS crashed again. > > I decided on the next restart to disable JAWS st startup and did so, then I > launched Narrator. I began having some problems getting the wizard to read > well with Narrator and tried to start JAWS with my hotkey. > > JAWS said nothing. It was running, but a sighted person helped me verify > that the menus in JAWS read Options, Utilities, Help - the Language menu was > nonexistent and JAWS was frozen. > > I restarted the system and JAWS didn't try to start at startup as it had > been configured. I tried my hotkey and JAWS tried to load but again was > missing the Language menu. There was no speech on either version. > > After another restart I tried running a repair on JAWS from Installation > Maintenance. Still no improvement, although I was able to tell JAWS 5 to > start automatically at Windows startup. > > After restart JAWS began speaking again. I use a SAPI 4 engine so I > unloaded JAWS and tried to launch it not as a service so I could use the > SAPI 4 detect. JAWS spoke, but when I tried to use SAPI 4 detect it froze. > > I restarted and went into Add/Remove Programs to remove MSN Messenger, and > successfully removed it. I then restarted and ran Disk Cleanup, checking to > clean up any items that I thought might be causing Windows to run some > application in the temporary files or other areas that might be interfering. > That was also successful. > > After another restart, I tried to again run JAWS not as a service and use > SAPI 4 detect. It froze again. I haven't tried JAWS 4.51 again at this > point. > > I thought I'd write here first and see if anyone had any suggestions at this > point, because I know FS isn't going to respond to me likely before Tuesday > or Wednesday, and I can't stand this Elloquence voice until then. > > My options at this point are to attempt to remove and delete JAWS 5 > completely from the hard drive, then try to reinstall it and hope I can run > it not as a service long enough to get my SAPI 4 engine detected. I had no > problems with this before, but for whatever reason it doesn't like something > in my system now and I can't pin down what could be interfering. I have > installed a number of applications since that time, but since I wasn't > having any problems with unloading and restarting JAWS 5 or JAWS 4.51 until > after this MSN Messenger mess, I have to assume that did something to my > system, and so I don't see where reinstalling JAWS is going to fix it. > > My other option is to back things up and reinstall my whole system and never > try to install MSN Messenger (any version). Once a software spooks me like > this during install, I'm obviously very hesistant to trust it in the future. > I generally have a very stable system and software that causes these kinds > of problems, I don't care how well they work for others, gets a bad rating > in my book. > > I can understand if most people here haven't had problems, but obviously MSN > Messenger started some progression of events since I hadn't been having any > problems until then. > > I'll see what responses I get here, and depending on the response I'll try > and email to FS support sometime tomorrow. > -Greg Epley > > > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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