Yes. I wish I could have warned you. I urge you to get a Dongle from Freedom Scientific (if you can) in order to tide over these sorts of happenings, which are indeed regrettably unexpected, and unacceptable.
I would argue for virtualisation, except that the same thing happens in virtual machines, because VMWare by default auto-installs new updates to the guest tools when they become available in the host. However, at least in VMWare Fusion, you should be all right with JAWS as long as you don't move the VM to a machine with a different CPU feature set, and I'd also recommend keeping the optical DVD drive in place of the physical one. Then as long as you don't intentionally change the spec of the machine in any way, JAWS shouldn't require activation again. As a final strategy, you can use another screen reader, and launch JAWS only when you require it. Sometimes I find that the activation requirement is persistent, even if you've fixed whatever hardware change caused it, so that merely restarting doesn't work. Therefore, don't start JAWS unless or until it's absolutely necessary. This would require making sure that JAWS isn't configured to start up with the machine. Hope this helps, in future at any rate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
