Hello listers:
Someone posted a question about how to get around the problem of JFW not
speaking at startup in Windows NT. Unfortunately, many of the responses were
un-tried assumptions offered as fact. One person even suggested that you
could use a DOS screen reader to read the user name and password prompts!
Preposterous! Come on people, if you haven't tried it yourselves, don't post
it! Assumptions are the mother of all screw-ups!
The reason that JFW does not speak the security prompts that appear at
startup in Windows NT is because no applications, including JFW are launched
from the 0-ring level of NT. You must enter a username and password before
the startup process continues.
There are only three options for NT users:
1. Wait for the hard drive to stop and then enter the security parameters
without benefit of speech.
2. Use Regedit to automate the passing of the required security parameters.
This solution is too complicated for the average user, so I won't go into
that.
3. Get a copy of Autolog.exe from the Microsoft Windows NT Developer's tool
kit. This easy to use utility modifies the registry with the security
parameters you give it. From then on, your log-in process at startup is
automatic! On my PC, I do have to hit the spacebar to click an O.K. button
in a dialog box that says that this is a NASA computer...yata-yata-yata, but
this is a minor speed-bump.
The only down side to this solution is that someone could start up your PC
without entering a password, but you can always use Windows locking programs
to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Hope this clears some things up!
Alan
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