RE: major problems with say all in new JAWS update

  • From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:48:15 -0800

No that is for Microsoft updates.  Iyou check that box  then you will have
the option to remove every Microsoft update you have installed.  Has nothing
what so ever to do with jaws.  hth

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Sean McMahon
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:55 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update

It's interesting, in add/remove there's an option to show updates.  Does
this 
work for showing the jaws updates?  Could you concievibly remove just the
latest 
update?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update


> hi.  well, it looks like it's gonna be an uninstall for me.
> I ran the installer for 8.0 build 1163 just a few minutes ago and it went 
> through it's little routine, click, cclick, click.
> Then I received a message telling me that the product was already
installed. 
> to modify or remove it, go to add/remove programs in control pannel. Ok so
I 
> did that.  The only option I was given was remove. No modify, or repair,
just 
> remove. I had the choice to just remove JAWS, or remove JAWS and shared 
> components.  Through experience, I learned that it is most definitely not!
a 
> good idea to remove shared components, especially if you have multiple 
> versions of JAWS and other access products on your machine, which I do.
> So to fix 8.0 and get it back to some sense of real normalcy, it looks
like 
> uninstalling 8.0 is my only option. I did write fs tech support in hopes
they 
> would be able to come up with some other solution. I just don't wanna have
to 
> do this because it would mean a whole lot of configuring for me and I've
got 
> better things to do with my life then try and fix a broken screenreader
that 
> should be working in the first damn place.
> Sorry, y'all, but I just wish fs would look at all the options before
putting 
> their product out. what if someone like me hadn't ran the previous update?
I 
> wonder if they'd be just as screwed as me. Just really frustrated now.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 12:39 PM 3/1/2007, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>Yeah, I'd go to the download page and select the http link to the package
if 
>>the ftp link's giving you fits.
>>Tom
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:14 AM
>>Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update
>>
>>
>>>Ah, okay. thanks. Should I use the FTP link Allan provided, or should I
go
>>>to the FS site/Jaws Center/Downloads?
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:46 AM
>>>Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I downloaded and ran the full install for build 1163 yesterday.  If
you've
>>>already done an ILM activation for JAWS 8 on your machine, it definitely
>>>won't ask you to re-activate, nor will it cost you a key.
>>>
>>>Tom
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:32 AM
>>>Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update
>>>
>>>
>>>>P..P.S.
>>>>
>>>>I clicked on the FTP link but all that happened was I got a Windows
error
>>>>sound. Also, you call it a full installation? Well, that's just what I
>>>>thought I found online last night, and it said it cost an ILM key. I'm
>>>>confused.
>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan" <allanwkf@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:12 AM
>>>>Subject: major problems with say all in new JAWS update
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>hi yardbird,
>>>>
>>>>to read about what's new in jaws 8, click this link:
>>>>http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws80fea.asp
>>>>
>>>>to read about jaws 8.0.1163 under windows Vista, click this link:
>>>>http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws80VistaUAC.asp
>>>>
>>>>to download the full installer for jaws 8.0.1163, click this link:
>>>>ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/WebFiles/JAWS/J8.0.1163
U_ILM.exe
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Allan Wong
>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 15:41
>>>>Subject: Re: major problems with say all in new JAWS update
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I seem to have missed some developments since I downloaded my Jaws 8.0
in
>>>>January, because you guys are talking about having problems with an
update
>>>>that you can't install as a partial update unless you've installed some
>>>>previous one that I didn't even know had been released, or something.
>>>>
>>>>The version I'm running is 8.0.423. That's what I downloaded in January.
>>>>
>>>>So you're saying that I can't use the auto update feature in the Jaws
menu
>>>>to update this, or else I'll start having even more problems than
version
>>>>8
>>>>is already giving me?
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, I'd like to read an explanation about this latest version or
>>>>update,
>>>>and see if it's supposed to correct any of the glitches that have
troubled
>>>>me to this point with version 8. But when I explore on the FS site to
find
>>>>something, all I can find is a page offering the latest full version,
>>>>numbered 8.0.1163, with the note that it's an ILM thing. Does that mean
>>>>if,
>>>>following you guys' advice, I update by downloading the entire updated
>>>>current version, it'll require one of my keys, leaving me with one
fewer,
>>>>a
>>>>possible inconveinece later? I thought updates were simply free if you
>>>>already had a current versin installed.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe I'm missing a page that has only updates and some explanation
about
>>>>them? After reading you guys' complaints, I'd rather download from the
FS
>>>>site than use the auto update feature, but where do I go to find this
>>>>update
>>>>and read about it, too?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
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