RE: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!

  • From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:36:22 -0500

hi. If you can, find out if he's using some flavor of XP, either home or 
Pro? what is strange is, that everyone using xp pro seems to not have any 
problems with it, whereas I'm using xp home, service pack 2 to be precise 
and I have this issue.

At 09:36 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:

>that is very strange.  I don't use msn messenger but my friend just told me
>it's working fine on his machine with the 6.1  Too busy now but I guess I'll
>have to set up an account and try it for myself.
>j
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>Behalf Of Chris Skarstad
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 4:06 PM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
>
>
>Hi
>Precisely! and that, my friends is what will not read using JAWS 6.10, the
>version released today.  The contact list window that lists all your
>contacts reads perfectly. However, the window that pops up when initiating
>a conversation is where the trouble starts. I can read what I want to type
>to the person and proofread it for errors, but when I send the message to
>them, I can *not*  read my response to them and any subsequent messages
>sent in that window. So when I was testing it with a friend, I could not
>read any of his responses.
>   I now know what users of windows 98 felt like when they upgraded to JAWS
>6. Very frustrating. So, going back to 6.0 seems to have fixed the problem,
>but I would sure like to know why the hell it works with 6, but not 6.1
>when others have made it work just fine.
>
>
>
>
>At 05:32 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
>
> >You said you have two windows in MSN 6.2? I have only one... the
> >conversation window.
> >
> >Gene
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks; Gene
> >
> >On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:29 PM
> >Subject: Re: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
> >
> >
> > > Well, I'm glad it worked for you, because it sure as hell wouldn't work
> > > for
> > > me. I'm wondering why it is that it didn't work with 6.1 when it worked
> > > with 6.0? Did FS make some other kind of change that may work on some
> > > systems but not others? I'm really not desperately needing to use JAWS
>6.1
> > > for anything, i mean 6.0 works just fine for me and does absolutely
> > > everything I need to do so I'm not mad about that, but I'm just trying
>to
> > > figure out what the cause of it might be and if there's a fix.
> > >
> > > At 05:23 PM 4/15/2005, you wrote:
> > >
> > >>I have also installed the upgrade on an XP Home system and find no
>problem
> > >>with MSN6.2, it runs just fine.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Thanks; Gene
> > >>
> > >>On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:01 PM
> > >>Subject: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > Hi all! I was really excited about the new update to  6.1 so I
> > >> > downloaded
> > >> > and installed it right away. The install went as smooth as you like,
> > >> > everything was cool.  So, I murged my settings with 6 and then went
>to
> > >> > test
> > >> > things out. I am sad to say that, for whatever reason, msn messenger
> > >> > 6.2
> > >> > would not work on my system here. I could read the input window, in
> > >> > other
> > >> > words I could read what I was typing, but the history window would
>not
> > >> > read
> > >> > at all. Nothing, zip, absolutely silent!
> > >> > Well, being a former beta tester, I figured, Ok, I'll quit 6.1 and
> > >> > re-launch 6.0 and see if it works there.  Well, to my shock and
> > >> > amazement,
> > >> > msn 6.2 didn't work with that either! I was really frazzled now.  So,
> > >> > I  did a repair on 6 thinking that would work, but no dice. Still
>same
> > >> > condition as before, I could read what I wrote, but not what other
> > >> > people
> > >> > wrote to me.  Well, to make a long story very short, I ended up
>having
> > >> > to
> > >> > scrap everything and re-installing JAWS 6, and I was even asked to
> > >> > re-activate. I have sent in a request to have my count reset, so
> > >> > hopefully
> > >> > they'll do that in a few days. I'm just really upset that the whole
> > >> > upgrade
> > >> > process didn't work the way it was advertised to.
> > >> > So, if you're using MSN Messenger 6.2 with XP Home, be careful!
>Install
> > >> > this newly updated version at your own risk. If it works for you,
> > >> > fantastic. If not, stick to 6 until FS can get their *** together.
> > >> > What's interesting is I have friends using XP Pro and the update
>works
> > >> > flawlessly, so go figure. Anyways, there's the report. I've only
> > >> > rebooted
> > >> > this computer about 5 times now, and I've finally got everything
> > >> > working
> > >> > again, so I'm really just thinking I'll stick with 6.0 for now.
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks guys
> > >> > The rather frazzled Chris
> > >> >
> > >> >
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