Re: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6

  • From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:53:55 -0600 (CST)

It's starting to sound as though somewhere along the line you've defined 
that hot key to the JAWS5 installation file, and you never undefined it.

Bruce

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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Troy Burnham wrote:

> Okay I was able to create the shortcut that time and I put it on my
> desktop.  I rebooted after creating the shortcut and then did the hot key
> and it still started the Jaws 5 installation maintenance wizard, but when I
> unloaded Jaws again and just hit enter on the shortcut on my desktop Jaws 6
> started.  Hmmm.
> Troy
>
>
>
> On Thursday 3/24/2005 09:38 PM, Grant Hardy said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Set your shortcut to this path--including the quotes:
>> "C:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\6.0\jfw.exe"
>> Then assign the hotkey to this shortcut.  If it can't find this folder, are
>> you sure you didn't specify a different directory when you installed JAWS 6?
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Grant
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
>>
>>
>>> Hi Grant,
>>> I didn't have just an add button under the start menu tab so I clicked on
>>> the customize button and found an add button there.  I clicked on that and
>>> typed Jaws6 in the box, but when I clicked the next button I got an error
>>> telling me that Jaws6 couldn't be located.  I then got out and went back
>>> in
>>> and instead of typing Jaws6 in the box I clicked the brouse button and
>>> went
>>> to the Freedom Scientific folder inside of the Program Files folder hoping
>>> to find the Jaws6 executable because I figured that's what it couldn't
>>> find
>>> the first time when I got the error but I couldn't find that anywhere
>>> either.  More help please?
>>> Troy
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday 3/24/2005 09:08 PM, Grant Hardy said:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Try setting your shortcut to:
>>>> jaws6
>>>> Follow these steps: press alt+enter from the taskbar and select the Start
>>>> Menu tab.  Click Add and in the "command line" box, simply type:
>>>> jaws6
>>>> Now hit enter and choose where you want this shortcut placed.  When you're
>>>> done, click the Advanced button under Start Menu.  Once you've navigated
>>>> to
>>>> your new shortcut, hit alt+enter and try assigning the hotkey to this.  If
>>>> it starts the installation maintenance, try running JAWS 6.0 by manually
>>>> executing this shortcut and tell what happens.
>>>>
>>>> Grant
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:37 PM
>>>> Subject: having trouble setting a hot key for Jaws 6
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> I'm trying to set alt-ctrl-J as my hot key to start Jaws 6 but no
>>>>> matter
>>>>> how I do it when I press the key combination I get the installation
>>>>> maintenance wizard for Jaws 5.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't keep any of my Jaws on the desktop so I go under programs to
>>>>> the
>>>>> Jaws60 submenu and the same thing happens whether I use the properties
>>>>> of
>>>>> the Jaws icon in the Jaws60 submenu or whether I use the start Jaws
>>>>> with
>>>>> Eloquence icon in the tools submenu.  Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> I did have alt-ctrl-J set to start Jaws 5 but I cleared it before
>>>>> setting
>>>>> it in Jaws 6, and I have deleted the hot key and rebooted and reset it
>>>>> and
>>>>> still no luck, and I'm sure that I have tried other things too that I
>>>>> can't
>>>>> think of right now.  This is the first time that I have ever run across
>>>>> a
>>>>> problem like this and I always keep two versions of Jaws installed at
>>>>> all
>>>>> times.  Any suggestions will be appreciated, FS told me that they would
>>>>> have to contact me by phone when I e-mailed them about it but although
>>>>> I
>>>>> sent back a note telling them when they can contact me I haven't heard
>>>>> anything yet.
>>>>> Troy
>>>>>
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