Re: back again to jaws with xp pro or xp standard
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:50:03 -0600 (CST)
JAWS Standard is not authorized to work with XP Pro. Period. The best
you'll ever get with XP Pro is for JAWS to run in demo mode. It's not a
question of JAWS working well or not well with XP Pro.
Bruce
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Joanne wrote:
> I asked a few weeks ago if jaws standard would work in an xp pro system, and
> it seemed to be the consensus that this couldn't be done. I need to be a
> little more specific now and tell you what happened to a friend of mine and
> to also tell you my experiment with it, because your feedback is definitely
> needed and will be appreciated.
>
> We specifically told the builder of my friend's computer that she needed XP
> home, not XP pro which this guy usually installs, because we explained she
> has jaws 4.51 standard and would need XP home to make jaws more functional.
> Well unfortunately her computer arrived yesterday with ... you guessed it
> ... XP pro. Someone has told her she should be able to use it okay with her
> standard jaws, so I went out to my children's computer which has XP pro and
> I put a jaws demo in. I found that it got me onto internet explorer and I
> could do some basics, but I noticed it ran slow and I noticed I could not
> read certain list views. It maybe read 2 items out of the 8 in list view
> under "my computer" so obviously this isn't going to work with her system if
> she can't always get full screen and list view readings. Do any of you have
> XP pro with jaws standard and does it work well for you, or would you advise
> that she purchase XP home? Could leaving her system the way it is cause
> damage or what do you think? Thanks.
>
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