Re: killjaws.bat, not sure if I did it right

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:04:00 -0700

Oh. I remember that notice coming up back when I used to write a lot of 
batch files when I had DOS computers for years, and could see well. I 
remember being able to catch what it was saying, even. I just forgot about 
this. Thanks.

What is the command prompt you say I should open? I don't know what you mean 
by that phrase. I may once have been familiar with it, but now it just 
sounds like "look at what you've typed on the command line," or something. 
But Tom, whatever you mean by that, I can say that I've gone into the 
properties for the shortcut and I see that it's aimed where it should be 
aimed, at the executable file I made the target. And I used for that target 
exactly what I copied from someone's post donating the  two lines for the 
batch file.

So the shortcut's  behaving as it should. Are you suggesting that there's 
something else that may be wrong? Like, say, the shortcut triggers this file 
taskkill. exec but that file is corrupt or something? Sorry, but I just 
don't know what you mean I should inspect, nor what I should be looking for.

Thanks.
From: "Bissett, Tom" <tom.bissett@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: RE: killjaws.bat, not sure if I did it right


That little box is the command prompt opening and closing.  If you want
to see what the batch file is doing open the command prompt and execute
it from there.

Tom Bissett
BMO Financial Group
Technology and Operations
Integrated Client Solutions
Tel: (416) 549-6514
E-Mail tom.bissett@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:30 AM
To: JFW List
Subject: killjaws.bat, not sure if I did it right

Following directions that were provided here, I created a file named
killjaws.bat in a chosen folder using these lines:

echo off
taskkill /F /IM jfw.exe

I went to the file and created a Desktop shortcut icon for it, using the
Send To function.

Then I went to the new icon, went into its properties, and created a
hotkey for it so I could invoke the batch file next time Jaws lost
speech. So far, so good.

But when I pressed my hotkey combo, nothing happened. I checked to see
if my hotkey had held, and it had. I went to the desktop, focused on the
icon, and pressed Enter to activate it. Again, nothing happened.

I did a restart in order to see if that might have been needed. It made
no difference. The only thing I can report helpfully is visual evidence
I'm unable to make sense of. And that is, when I activate this shortcut,
a small dark rectangle I assume to be some sort of notification flashes
onto the screen and disappears, all within a fraction of a second. Even
if I could read, and therefore wouldn't need Jaws in the first place, I
probably couldn't see what this thing says because it flashes by so
fast. So that doesn't help me describe what's going on.

Does anyone have an idea what it is that's not working right? Could it
be that you can't just exit Jaws this way in a normal situation, instead
of unloading it with Insert F4? You have to be in a situation where Jaws
loses speech?

Thanks.

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