RE: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!

  • From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:00:48 -0500

Chris,
I think you must have chosen the scrambled eggs option on the merge
phase.
I hate to tell you but I am still using 5.0.677.
I have 6.0 and then they sent me an additional disk to renew my SMA
afterwards but, until the dust all settles I will not install 6.0.
Cy, the aprehensive Ancient Okie... 

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Skarstad
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:02 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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