rolling back jaws?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 20:04:48

Hey all. I was wondering if there's a way you can roll back a jaws build without uninstalling the whole thing? I have jaws8.0.173 the one that just came out on June 25. It seems to be really sluggish with IE7. Thanks.

Post 2 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Friday, 06-Jul-2007 5:20:10

what do you mean roll back?. you can install another copy of jaws on the computer, and then remove the old one. that's what i did, cause my one was awful as well

Post 3 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Friday, 06-Jul-2007 17:37:44

Basically, if you want to use a build of JAWS lower than 8.0 with IE 7, it just won't work properly. The cursors go really weird and don't move round the screen as you'd expect it to, it just sort of sits there, so if you're typing in an Edit box on every single webpage, it'll miss out certain letters, mopstly at the beginning of each word you type, if not in the middle of the words, so, you end up searching for the wrong thing or keying in the wrong things you're not looking for. Also, it won't be very good with combo boxes. The cursors will just sit at the top of a list of items in a combo box, for example, when you're registering with various websites and you have to select your date of birth, gender, postcode Etc, using a combo box, so my advice is, best stick with JAWS 8.0 unless you roll back to IE6, which works with JAWS 7.0 and under.

Jen.

Post 4 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Friday, 06-Jul-2007 17:43:10

Yeah what I mean is stick with 8.0 but I want to roll back to the previous build.

Post 5 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Friday, 06-Jul-2007 18:12:15

Hmmm! Don't roll back JAWS if you can't roll back to IE5 or 6 then.

Jen.

Post 6 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Saturday, 07-Jul-2007 2:06:45

i have no problem with the new jfw.

Post 7 by audioadict (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2007 6:55:34

I have IE 7 and jaws 7.0. I can't upgrade, and I don't have the money to do so. How do I role back to IE 6?

Post 8 by jeffreyshockley (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2007 16:08:51

Hi,
You go to add or remove programs and arrow until you get to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and then you uninstall it.

Post 9 by audioadict (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2007 19:16:25

That's easy to do, but how do I git IE 6?