[real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:02:58 -0500
What about a spyware scan.
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From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:57 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
> Only thing I can think of. I haven't DL or installed anything new for
> software. No virus detected, and I don't do much on the net where I would
> be
> likely to pick anything up. I didn't find anything in the scan logs for AV
> that concerns me for scans leading up to the beginning of the issue.
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:05 PM
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> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
>
> Hmmm! Never heard of this one before. I do wonder if there is an update
> that
> did do something strange.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:54 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] JAWS Expert Needed
>
>
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a setting in Windows or in JAWS that
>> would cause it to repeat voicing of letters and buttons when using the
>> JAWS cursor? This started happening a few days back in a single
>> program, but now I am starting to see issues all over the place. If I
>> try, for example, to read icons on the desktop character by character,
>> it will voice each letter anywhere from 1 to four times. Ditto if I
>> try to check a filename in Windows Explorer. I have to actually start
>> to rename the file to know for sure how it is spelled. In fact, all
>> edit boxes seem to work correctly with the JAWS cursor; it is just in
>> lists and things like buttons that have the issue.
>>
>> Menus have started acting strange as well. I have loads of IE
>> Favorites, and while that large list worked fine last week, it
>> scarcely works at all now.
>> Alt+A opens the list, but cursoring up and down gives no speech at all
>> Alt+for
>> several presses, and then starts skipping randomly through the list.
>> Same sort of issues with the Start Menu. There, however, it adds a new
>> twist; impulsively opening folders and then says that they contain
>> nothing. It acts a bit like a crazed drunken keyboard, and I swapped
>> that out for a wired version. No good. Blown out display drivers and
>> reinstalled. Also no good.
>> Checked startup programs and services, and can't find anything there
>> that isn't supposed to be, and virus scans were all negative.
>>
>> My fear is it's the work of an update from some program--perhaps
>> Windows itself. Oh, and I did try restoring prev configuration/. All I
>> have for the past few weeks is System Check points. Anyone know of a
>> fast way to find the last full restore point in XP SP 3? BTW, my
>> version of JAWS is pretty old:
>> version 7.x.
>>
>>
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