That's as bad as Avira (I think it was) placing my volume control in quarantine; had to do a restore for that one.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Martin via Jfw Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 9:01 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: jaws.exe disappears? Dave Carlson is the winner. Turns out Avast ate the JFW.exe file. I found it in the virus chest. Thanks for the help! Brad On 12/22/2014 9:51 AM, Dave Carlson wrote: > Brad, > > Either you don't have Administrator privileges, or you have an > anti-virus working in the background, or you need to call Tech Support > at freedom Scientific. Something is not allowing your jfw.exe to remain > unmolested. > > Dave Carlson > Oregonian, woodworker, and pioneer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Martin via Jfw" <[email protected]> > To: "Brad Martin" <[email protected]>; "The Jaws for Windows > support list." <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 07:30 AM > Subject: Re: jaws.exe disappears? > > > Update to my own posting: I came into work this morning, turned on my > computer, and heard the usual, "JAWS for Windows. Press Control Alt > Delete to Log On" (we're on a domain here.) Clearly JAWS was still on > my machine at that point. I logged in fine, but when my desktop came > up, there was no JAWS. Ran the JAWS shortcut, and got this same > message that the item the shortcut refers to has been changed or > moved. So again, JFW.EXE just disappeared. Ran System Restore, got > the same error that Restore failed and no changes were made, but JAWS was > back. > > Am I the only one having this problem? JFW 15 with latest update, > Windows > 7 Pro 64-bit. > > Brad > > >> Windows 7 64-bit, JAWS15, latest update. >> >> I left the house yesterday, so I shut down my computer. All was >> working when I left. >> >> Came home tonight, started up my computer, and JAWS would not talk. >> Tried restarting a couple of times. No JAWS. Put in a flash drive I >> have with NVDA, and got it to talk to me. Tried to start JAWS from >> the desktop shortcut; got the message the file had been changed or >> moved and the shortcut would no longer work. Explored to c:\program >> files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\15.0 and found that, indeed, there was >> no jfw.exe >> >> I always run my machine with a standard account, so there's no way I >> could've deleted the program file. >> >> Logged on as admin with the same results. Tried to reinstall the >> program and got the message that I needed to reconfigure using >> Programs & Features because another version was already installed. >> Thought I'd try a system restore. Ran restore to December 17. Got >> the message that Restore failed and no changes were made to my >> system, but JAWS came back and is working fine now. Went back to the >> above referenced path, and indeed, JFW.exe is now there once again. >> >> Do huh?!?!?! What just happened? Anybody else had this experience? >> >> >> -- >> Brad Martin >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> My Facebook page >> where I post online shopping coupons and deals: >> facebook.com/ucoupons <http://www.facebook.com/ucoupons> >> My SmarterBucks signup link <http://bit.ly/1w5FCPu> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was >> scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments >> /20141221/3c081259/attachment.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jfw mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > -- Brad Martin [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> My Facebook page where I post online shopping coupons and deals: facebook.com/ucoupons <http://www.facebook.com/ucoupons> My SmarterBucks signup link <http://bit.ly/1w5FCPu> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20141222/80785640/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
