If it is a laptop, some manufacturers have factory installed power schemes that mute the sound to squeeze a little more battery life or quicker charging. Lenovo and SONY come to mind. If this is the case there should be a power utility to disable this behavior. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Pierson Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] bad muting problem Hi Dan, This works on XP and previous versions of Windows. Pick up Quickmix which allows you among other things to put a shortcut to an unmuted volume configuration in your Windows startup folder so that when that happens you can just reboot and all volume control settings return to normal. There is probably some laptop key combination you are accidentally hitting which causes the muting. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Mccurley Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] bad muting problem We need some help; both my friend and I are blind; when on the computer, all of a sudden we will loose speech, windows sounds and everything else that one could hear; when we find someone that can see to look at the screen we find that the computer has muted itself; we have two questions; is there a way that a blind person can un/mute the computer; and secondly, what would make the computer just decide to mute; any help in this mater will be appreciated. Thanks, Dan For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.16/2435 - Release Date: 10/14/09 06:33:00 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
