You're exactly right, Colin. I got bagged a few times when I first started using JAWS, but quickly learned to assign a hotkey just in case I had to shut the program down and restart it. I used to wonder why FS didn't assign Ctrl+Alt+J; it seemed like such an obvious choice, but when I started running more than one version I figured out why.
Right now, I'm playing with the new Beta release, so I like to keep the official version on the system just in case something malfunctions and I have to get back to a working version. I use Ctrl+Alt+J for the official version, and Ctrl+Alt+F9 for the Beta version. Nothing special about that second assignment except that the key wasn't being used for anything else. I wanted to use Ctrl+Alt+F12, but some other piece of software on my machine is already using that key, so I couldn't. I found that out in a hurry when I tried to assign the key and that other software started running.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 19:38
Subject: Re: jaws question
> I'm so glad you said that steve, because I actually wrote two responses
> regarding no default hotkey, but figured I'd get the stink eye if I sent
> them...
> JFW, does not have, and never has had, a default hotkey set up. You must
> create it. For instance, what if you are running two versions of jfw on
> your computer, which one would start up with the hotkey if there was one?
> What if something else on your system uses Alt Control J, would JFW become
> primary or not? I have been running jaws since about version 2.0 and am up
> to 14 now, and have never seen a default hot key. I have made my hotkey alt
> control J many times, but it's always something I add and not something that
> is somehow programmed by default.
> Sometimes I have up to 3 versions of jaws on the system and have to create a
> different hotkey for each...
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 5:18 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: jaws question
>
>> Butch,
>>
>> Actually, there is no shortcut key to start JAWS unless you make one. =
>> However, there is an icon on the desktop, and you can assign a shortcut =
>> key (usually I make it Ctrl-Alt-J as you suggest).
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 16:38
>> Subject: Re: jaws question
>>
>>
>>> Butch,
>>>=20
>>> If you run JAWS in the demo mode and shut it down or it times out, =
>> unless=20
>>> this has changed in later versions, you will have to reboot the =
>> computer in=20
>>> order for JAWS to run again for another forty minutes.
>>>=20
>>> The default hot key to start JAWS is control, alt, J
>>> all simultaneously.
>>>=20
>>> Howard #3, W A 9 Y B W
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 3:31 PM
>>> Subject: Re: jaws question
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>> Yeah, turn on windows narator by hitting windows key plus U.
>>>> Then find jaws on the desktop or jaws in the start menu and launch it =
>> that
>>>> way. Then, once jaws is loaded either turn on start jaws when the=20
>>>> computer
>>>> starts, or set up a hotkey via the desktop icon.
>>>>
>>>> 73
>>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 2:06 PM
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subject: jaws question
>>>>
>>>>> I usually use window-eyes, but I bought a used laptop for a friend =
>> who is
>>>>> sighted, it had a demmo of jaws on it which I turned off so it =
>> doesn't
>>>>> come up when he turns it on. Is there a short cut key or quick way =
>> for=20
>>>>> me
>>>>> to get it back running to I can check some things on the computer =
>> for=20
>>>>> him?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> 73
>>>>> Butch
>>>>> WA0VJR
>>>>> Node 3148
>>>>> Wallace, ks.=20
>>>=20
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