Category: Geeks r Us
Hi everyone,
I've noticed this happening in the last two laptops I've used JAWS 10 on, but haven't figured out what causes it. After a set ammount of time, or after changing moniters, or switching to full-screen programs, or even putting the computer into stand-by mode sometimes, I am unable to use the JAWS cursor at all. All other JAWS functions work, however the JAWS cursor refuses to work in any application. In addition I am not able to read notepad doccuments. JAWS just says blank after going over each line. I guess the two things are connected, I'm just not sure how or what to do about them. Restarting the computer is the only way to fix it. Even restarting JAWS does not work.
THanks for any suggestions anyone has.
I can't speak for the notepad issue but I've had those jaws cursor problems with my laptop as well. Unfortunately I have no idea what causes it though - perhaps some glitch in the video drivers or something. Rebooting the machine is the only solution I've found for it each time as well.
Could you try to reinstalling JAWS?
Just a suggestion!
Thank you!
It sounds as if your video card may have a secondary driver. What operating system are you currently running? Are you using a docking station, or an external monitor as wel as the laptops LCD?
I've tried reinstalling to no avail. As for my computer I'm using Windows XP. I'm using a secondary moniter and I'm not using a JAWS docking station (not actually sure how that works anyway). I'm not actually sure about a secondary video driver however. How would one discover that?
Thanks for the quick responses.
Remy
It's a good thing I read a bit down the list of posts, or I would've made a duplicate topic. I'm having the same issue, it's driving me up the wall as I use a PSX emulator to play games and after I exit it, Jaws is handicapped. I'm sorry I can't actually offer a solution, but if anyone else has one, bring it on!
Thanks in advance,
Albano.
Yeah, I can see how a PS1 emulator would do that. Anything that resizes your moniter seems to do it. I might be wrong about that, but if you notice any time you run a game (b e it PC or PS1 emulation) the screen flickers. I think that's it resizing your moniter to fit the game/emulator/program specifications....Okay I just pulled that out of my rectum, but it seems possible. Question is, what to do about it.
I just thought of this. Not a solution per say, but more of a stalling method, and then only if you have AIM running. For some reason, while AIM is active, it prevents Jaws from being messed up. For instance, I tend to turn off the screen of my laptop while I work and my sister is asleep as we're sharing a room. If I'm not online on AIM and do this, our problem happens. If AIM is online, then it doesn't. Curious, no?
i don't have the jaws curser problem, but, in notepad jaws just says blank, not that i use notepad that often, and, it does it in, windows live chat windows... but works fine in word, and on the internet...
same in quitter, it won't read anyhing, it just says quitter. not that it's a problem, just wierd...
speaking of having a jaws issue, when I tried to install jaws 11 on my vista machine, it asked to install a driver. When I installed the driver, a few minutes it said that jaws couldn't be installed. Any help would be grately appreciated
same happened to me... so i went back to 10
As for the graphics issue, JAWS can not handle the amount of pixels displayed on the screen. Any graphic-entensive applications will mess with JAWS, Window eyes doesn't have that issue though. As for JAWS not able to install, not sure.
yeh, resizeing the screen resolution really does seem to screw with jaws, be jaws turned on or off... Its just something I've been annoied with in the past but just accepted it and fired up window eyes.