Re: Need help installing Jaws 9
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:35:42 -0800
Chris, if you read my message, you'll see that there's more going on than
that. As I said, it literally didn't install even though it seemed to at
first. But not only doesn't Jaws 9 show up in the add/remove programs list,
but my Jaws 8 isn't on that list, either, even though I'm using it. And I
did not get those new dialogues offering a way to configure basic Jaws
settings as you install, and so forth. A Jaws repair? I can't repair it. It
isn't installed. And the file is one I just downloaded from FS exactly as I
was supposed to. No, something really weird is going on.
Thanks, though. I'll try again tomorrow with coffee.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: Need help installing Jaws 9
Hi, I had no problems installing JAWS 9 here on my Vista laptop. Try doing a
repair. Perhaps the installation glitched somewhere. Yes, I agree, it does
seem to take a few minutes to reboot the computer once JAWS 9 has been
installed. I thought it was my machine, so thanks for duplicating this.
Perhaps it removes temporary files or something, but surely it's not meant
to take long?
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower User
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 5:58 AM
Subject: Need help installing Jaws 9
>
>
> From everything people were saying, I thought this would be even easier
> than
> usual. But no.
>
> I downloaded the final release from the FTP site. I click on the exec file
> and ran the install routine, whatever it's called now.
>
> From what people had been saying, I expected more dialogue screens then I
> got. Maybe it's because I chose Typical installation? But I didn't get
> that
> part where they say you can set up the basics right while you're
> installing.
> And I didn't even get a dialogue to choose run at startup, which I'm used
> to
> from earlier versions. Nothing. I just responded to a couple of dialogue
> screens, and then got a finish button.
>
> I chose to restart my system manually, because I had to answer an email
> before I did anything else. So then I exited all running applications and
> chose restart form the shut down dialogue.
>
> The computer took not seconds but minutes to finally go of, and then
> several
> minutes more before the screen finally came back to life (I'm partial, so
> I
> could see that). I sat there waiting for it to say that Jaws was ready,
> but
> it remained silent. So I touched a reading key and it spoke. Said Task
> bar,
> which is what I was focused on. Okay, so no announcement.
>
> But by this time, I was curious enough to press insert J and look under
> help
> to see which version had just launched. Yep. The same final update of
> version 8 I thought I was replacing when I did the install.
>
> Well, I'm stumped. Can anyone make sense of this scenario?
>
> Thanks. By the way, I wouldn't blame anyone for wondering if I'd clicked
> on
> the exec file for Jaws 8 by accident, but I didn't. The voice kept saying
> Jaws 9 during the install. Honest.
>
> P.S. Wow. Just to check if Jaws 9 had been installed even though it hadn't
> launched, I went to add/remove programs in Control Panel to lsee if it was
> on the installed applications list. Well, not only is *it* not there, but
> Jaws 8, which I'm using as I type this, isn't shown either! Oddly, Jaws 7
> is
> on the list, which is fine but irrelevant to my present situation. Can
> anyone help me make sense of this?whiich loo
>
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