Hi listers,
I have big problems here. I hope you can help me figure out what is going
on with my screen reader/ or computer or both.
Approximately, 48 hours ago a big change came over my system(s), after I
visited three web sites. I sent information to two of them in the form of
registration, and on one of them I downloaded a winzip file about Visual
Basic.
I opened the winzip file and read some of it to make sure it was there on my
floppy disk to where I directly downloaded the file from the web site.
Then I closed down everything and shutdown my machine. Then a few hours
later I cranked it up again. Here is where the trouble began. I will not
say all of my problems, but let it suffice to say I definitely have problems
with jfw working right.
Before all this happened when I would boot up, I would go to the desktop.
Now I go to something called program manager. It will say program manager,
even though I am on the desktop.
The insert+F6 command or the windows key+m command both take me to program
manager. What happened to my desktop?
I have tried all kinds of things to make jfw read correctly as it did in the
past, but it won't. It does not read a message automatically any more,
whether in a mail program or MS Word the PC cursor in the screen reader
skips lines, sometimes whole paragraphs and screens full, and bounces all
over the place.
The read all command does not work in any place. I can read a document by
taking about five or eight times more time and effort to read a document by
pressing the downarrow or line down command, refreshing the blank line which
it announces by pressing the refresh command insert+escape, then reading the
line with the say line command, and then repeat for each line and so on and
so on.
Using the insert+s and the insert+q does not offer me a clue. I have
completely reloaded jfw3.2 from the CD, using Dr. Jaws and the whole bit,
and nothing helps.
A sighted person said my screen looks entirely different than it use to look
a couple of days ago. She saw a tiny box in the MS Word document title
called visual basic and some little doodads after that. She x'ed that out
with the mouse.
I have looked in MyComputer program for a Visual basic file, but none is
found. Could downloading a file from the web make all this stuff happen to
my system? The only visual basic file I have or know of is located on a
floppy disk, which I downloaded two days ago, when all these problems
started.
Your help is appreciated,
Harry
The Trust Walker
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