Time to switch to NVDA. It does some things better than jaws now anyway. Best,
Erik Burggraaf Follow my campaign on fund me for great promotions as I work to raise funds to take orientation and mobility certification training. http://www.fundme.com/en/projects/6287-Orientation-and-mobility-training-for-the-blind On 2014-08-31, at 8:24 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
