Hi. I have done System Restore several times with screen readers and it works very well. To date, I have never had a computer fry on me due to the system being restored.
When you go to the System Restore program, you will see a page similar to a Web page containing radio buttons. The radio buttons will give you choices of "restore my system" and "create a system restore point" ... Or words to that effect. If your goal is to bring your system back to an earlier time, you'll need to use your arrow keys and choose the Restore my System to an Earlier Time choice. You will need to press the spacebar to activate that radio button, as you would if you were doing it on a web page. Now, press tab to go to the Next button. Press enter, which brings up the screen where you choose the date you want to go back to. Now, here is where things get a little tricky ... But just a little. You are presented with a calendar of dates, probably for the current month. Some dates are in bolded text, and these are the dates your computer will allow you to go to. You will need to turn on the feature where JAWS announces text attributes to hear this info. Before I realized this I used the Jaws cursor to navigate through the days and then used insert-f to get Jaws to tell me whether the text was bolded or not. You can use the Jaws Speech and Sounds Manager to turn it on automatically; if you need help doing this just ask and I'm sure someone on the list will help you. Ok, are you with me so far? If I haven't scared you away yet you need to choose the day of the month to resotre your system; you'll run across numbers like 1, 2, 3, etc. which are the days of the current month. If you're using the Jaws cursor to navigate through those day choices, use the numpad slash key to left click the one you want. If you're using the PC cursor, press the spacebar on the day you wish. Now, you will see choices for the day you selected, so if you selected 4 you'll see something like April 4, 2010 9:53 AM Restore Point If there are several options or restore points for that day you will see all of them on that screen. By using the keyboard, you should be able to use the spacebar to choose which restore point you want. Tab to next and press enter. At some point, you will be asked to confirm that you want to do this, and the day you selected will be listed. I realize, that, if you've never done a system restore before this may sound so overwhelming that you might feel it would be better to go back to using an electric typewriter. To be blunt sometimes I long for those days. <grin> However, once you do it enough times and become familiar with the screens it will become simpler. Please forgive me if my instructions could have been better or if I'm not getting the wording of everything exactly as it appears. David -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Melissa Riley Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:59 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Problem with outlook I am two weeks away from the end of my semester, which means also in the middle of 4 major final projects. I am afraid to do the system restore, I've never done one. How do I go about that? Does JAWS work through he entire process? The timeing is also why it is so difficult to suddenly be without my Outlook information. Warmly, Melissa -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kimsan Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:02 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Problem with outlook Since you have tried most of the suggestions I was going to bring up, how about doing a system restore? -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Melissa Riley Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:59 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] Problem with outlook Hello everyone. I am having a bizarre problem with my outlook. Out of nowhere, I go to open Outlook, and it won't open, saying "cannot open the Outlook Window", and no matter what I do, I cannot get into my emails and contacts. I have had this problem once before, and ended up having to create a new outlook profile, and lost all 400 of my contacts, essentially starting from scratch. I have now had to do that again, so I now have three Outlook profiles on my laptop, 2 completely unusable. I've tried re-installing Outlook, also tried updating, repairing, and rebooting. Somewhere all my contacts and old emails are here, I just can't get to them. I am using Windows 7, with JAWS 11. Can someone shed some light on what the issue is, and is it fixable? 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