Re: Restoring JAWS Without Sighted Assistance After Loss of Speech
- From: "Roger Levine" <rlstation@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:41:35 -0700
Hi Pat,
Would you please expand on the idea of placing the Taskkill shortcut in the
Start menu. navigation can be tricky if you don't have speech. The hot-key
method does solve the navigation problem.
Thank You for your post.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: PatWJL
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: Restoring JAWS Without Sighted Assistance After Loss of Speech
I've been using it for a couple of years now, I believe since the JAWS 7.x
version and it seems to work as a last resort. Of course the forced shutdown
does not allow JAWS to perform its usual shutdown logic; butI guess that's the
point of a forced shutdown. If you notice any strange behavior after restarting
JAWS, just shut it down normally (INS F4) so it can perform its normal shutdown
and then restart it. BTW I put the JAWS shortcut on my Start menu; that seems
to be more reliable than the usual key combinations which, in my experience,
can conflict with some other program shortcuts.
HTH,
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Gerald Levy
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:03 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Restoring JAWS Without Sighted Assistance After Loss of Speech
Hi Pat. I followed your instructions, and created a keybord shortcut (Alt +
Control + K) to kill JAWS in an emergency. It seems to work so far, but the
real test comes when I encounter a truly difficult glitch. By the way , I have
JAWS 8.0 under XP Pro SP3. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: PatWJL
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: Restoring JAWS Without Sighted Assistance After Loss of Speech
There is another way to "kill" JAWS in a particularly difficult situation.
I created a shortcut that invokes the XP system utility "taskkill" that
forcefully removes a running program. You can create a desktop shortcut with
the following target:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskkill.exe /f /im jfw.exe
I named the shortcut "Kill JAWS" and assigned it to the CTRL ALT K key
combination. I am connected all day to either of two remote XP installations at
work through Windows terminal services and often have a crash. This key
combination is, at least for me, a good way to kill the running JAWS program.
The taskkill utility is provided as part of XP, but I can't speak for other
Windows versions.
HTH,
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:29 AM
To: JFW list
Subject: Restoring JAWS Without Sighted Assistance After Loss of Speech
Occasionally, a crash or other glitch causes JAWS to stop speaking. When
this happens, is there any way to close and restart JAWS without sighted
assistance to restore it to normal? Thanks.
Other related posts:
