Category: the Rant Board
Hi All. I've said this before, and it's a good rant. I'm getting sick and tired of jaws 7.0! The main reason is unstability. It's so slow and unstable. It's real slow and unresponsive at times, and I get these error messages about it encountered a problem and needs to close. It doesn't always work well with word and It isn't good with internet explorer 7. I'm really thinking fs is going down hill. I liked jaws 6.2, and I wish I could downgrade, or upgrade to jaws 8. That's the end of my rant!
Jaws 8 is much better than 7.2 and I don't see why you cannot downgrade. You can have different versions of Jaws installed on same computer so just download the Jaws 6 from their web site and install it.
Hmmm, interesting I don't seem to have a problum with it. @ all.
Before downgrading jaws you will want to downgrade your internet explorer.
My understanding is that it only truly works with 8 and above.
And it's probably your computer that may be the problem.
I know some who tried running IE7 with jws 7 and they had problems as well.
So I would downgrade to 6 and do maintanence.
I agree that fixing the computer is your first step. Next Jaws 7 doesn't work well with IE 7. FS has given a free upgrade and that is 7.10/500U. If you have the right service contract this is a free upgrade and can be downloaded from the website. it will work with word and your IE 7 great, but your computer needs to be cleaned and running well before you fault Jaws.
How do you know you are getting these error messages? Are they from jaws or another program? It works with internet Explorer 6 and word 2003. So you can't blame jaws for everything.
Good ideas everyone. Jaws gives me these error messages in i e 7. I'll upgrade to jaws 7.1. I use it at school, and it works fine. About maintenance, I haven't done any computer maintenance at all, and I've had my computer for 2 years. Thanks for the advice.
Well, jaws seems to get slower by the minute. The good thing is that I may be getting jaws 8 soon. Well, I'd rather an unstable version of jaws than no screen reading software at all.
That's the way to think.
8 will work better with the flood of new versions of programs.
JAWS isn't the cause of Internet Explorer errors. JAWS, in my opinion, sucks. Seven was unstable. And, so is IE. Use FireFox.
It worked for me when I had it. Then again, I was using an older computer
It doesn't work with the new stuff.
Another thing. Your JAWS isn't slow, it's your computer not givinig JAWS enough memory or processing power to function. You might want to do a disk cleanup and defrag before installing jaws. And, you might want to look at NVDA or WinEyes.
unfortunately, many programmers these days are programming sloppy code because the more modern pc's have loads of ram. tight programmes with tight code are getting fewer. jaws is an example of a sloppy programmed application. i found, before I used a ram rever programme, that jaws would slow down with use as ram would be abused by the prog. try memturbo from www.memturbo.com which should help. I use that prog all the time to stabelise my pc.
I had this issue in jfw 7 yes when you get 8 it will work better. Like stated earlier you can go back or just unstall ie 7 and use six. I thinks its better anyway in my opinion and also clean up the PC. it does help
Well, as far as maintenance goes, my desktop is quite cluttered, I have a ton of files and programs, I haven't ran my antispyware program in about 3 months, haven't ran my antivirus program in about 3 weeks, ran disk cleanup only once, an have never defragmented my harddrive. Also, I don't use a firewall. To top it all off, I had this computer for 2 years. Dang! No wonder jaws is so slow. Thanks for all the posts.
Wow that's a computer waiting to die!
Troy
I think DL is playing us. I say that because she has a problem with everything she posts. Highgeen, as someone put it, suicide, trials, and jaws and her computer. Don't take her seriously unless you want. And, as forthat computer, I don't think JAWS would even b operable.
It works. Yesterday, I ran my antispyware program and got 73 spyware.
And, did you clean them off? Have you ran antivirus? I recommend Avast by the way. Have you ran a firewall? I recommend Sygate.
Also kerio is a very good firewall as well. To be sure you get any bugs removed with your antivirus program, do a scan in safemode. You'll need sighted help to scan that way, because no sounddrivers are loaded in safe mode. Or another way would be to scan your system externally from your OS, meaning if you've created rescue disks from within your antivirus software after updating your virus deffinitions, just boot from those disks and run the scan that way, and again you'll need sighted help there as well.
I have A vg antivirus. I'll check out avast. A vg usually runs automatically, but my friend said to scan the computer manually. I did happen to get rid of most of the spyware, but I got an error message that said that 2 problems couldn't be fixed. I use spy bot for antispyware. I don't use a firewall at the moment, but I'll look into sigate firewall. Is it better than windows firewall that comes with windows?
Yes, becausw windows firewall only blocks inbound transmissions. Also. Spybot isn't sufficient. If you run spybot, you want to try running ad-aware. It's made by acompany called lavasoft. Or, maybe spyware blaster. One spyware program can't catch everything.
Thanks a lot. I know they have jaws scripts for adaware, and I'll download it. I'll also tell my other friend who uses spy bot about it, and that might do me some good.
i use spyware doctor, nod 32anti virus, and kerio persoal firewall. you can't go wrong with those in my view. btw, nod 32 is fantastic!
I have jaws 5 on my laptop, but might be getting jaws 7 soon. We use version 7.1 on the college computers and it works fine with internet explorer. Mind you, I don't know what version of internet explorer it is.
My college is using jaws 7.0 with Microsoft Office 07. Bad combo.
jaws 7.0 and ms office 2007? oh dear! arhrhrhrhrhrhg!
O no. Jaws 7.0 and office 2007 mix like water and oil! Lol.
eeewww, AVG? Check this one out better at
free-av.com
Hello all, I did get ad aware, and it works wonders! Thanks to the poster who mentioned it. It found spyware, and fixed them. I highly recommend it.
So, Download, have you actually used JAWS with Office 2007?
I did in college before they upgraded to jaws 8.
Ah, I see.