I'm going to have to pay more attention to this now. The only time I absolutely know when Jaws freezes on me is when running a spell check in Outlook before sending a message. It'll sometimes hang for a bit or outright crash. I do get the odd Jaws freezing/hanging, but it's so random otherwise that outside of the spellcheck thing, I can't really pinpoint a specific behavior or sequence to it. I can usually tell when it crashes because my Brailliant display will then just show the standard "Humanware Brailliant BI 40" message until Jaws comes back. This too is how I can tell in general when Jaws has dumped on me since sometimes it can also be a pop up on the screen or some other program that's frozen and gotte in the way of Jaws's ability to speak. My sighted wife's bailed me out a few times by reaching over and grabbing the mouse and closing whatever might be on the screen. And like magic, Jaws comes back on its own. There was an issue earlier this morning with Malwarebytes and some webcheck update that was pushed out causing some weird ram spike and making everything slow, crashy and buggy. It was locking up Jaws, NVDA and Narrator. No matter what I tried, I would lose speech and I would have to restart my desktop and laptop. The only way I found out that it was Malwarebytes was by jumping online between pc reboots and browsing through Twitter with my iPhone. There I saw a tweet by them acknowledging that an app update was causing problems for folks. They put out a fix about an hour later and both machines for me at least are working as they should. It was a pretty stressful morning for sure.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of joediner...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 2:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and freezing I am running JAWS 2018 on a Windows 10 Pro machine and experiencing the same thing regarding freezing. In fact it happened to me the other day when I was taking a Freedom Scientific certification exam Thinking there is a little bit of irony there. If you leave the machine alone speech usually returns in 3 or 4 minutes. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of John Vernaleken` Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:01 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and freezing I have JAWS 2018 and run Windows 10 and it seems to be freezing up more often than a few weeks ago. John -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of George Martinez Sr Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 4:27 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and freezing Just got home & saw this meeting but I am wondering WHICH version of JAWS is freezing? George A. Martinez, CPA O-602.368.8854 F-206.666.2589 C-602.368.5424 "I've learned....That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." attributed to Andy Rooney -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kimsan Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 12:05 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws and freezing Hello: This week, I'm noticing jaws just randomly freezes on me. I could be reading an email, surfing the web, writing in word, yelling at the dog, and poof it would just stop working. I would do the jaws dump command and then try to bring it back with the hotkey but it doesn't come back up, unless I reboot. Thoughts? If you are a wrestling fan, I invite you to visit my wrestling site for blogs and podcasts by navigating to: http://www.therasslincafe.com/ Also, you may like our page on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheRasslinCafe/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus 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/ 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
