Hi all,

Ana mentioned she can bring up Narrator, but I cannot bring up Narrator.

Just now, I tried to bring the computer out of sleep mode, and this 
time, I had no speech at all.

Harry, now going to try the hybernate suggestion that Chris mentioned


On 5/29/2018 3:40 AM, Ana G wrote:
> I sometime have a problem like the one Harry describes, where Jaws may 
> speak a couple of words on boot, then stop talking.
>
>
> This tends to happen when I boot up after I've closed the computer 
> before a complete shut-down, or it happens after an update. Lately, 
> I've been getting an account sign-in error (i.e., the laptop tells me 
> I should change my password because there's a problem with my 
> Microsoft account). I reboot without changing anything, and Harry's 
> error happens.
>
>
> For me, it's not new to the Windows 10 April 2018 update. I know I had 
> it with Fall Creators, and I may have had it with the first creators 
> update.
>
>
> I'm not sure if the problem is Microsoft or Jaws. Most of the time, 
> not always, I can bring up Narrator.
>
>
> On 5/28/2018 6:05 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>
>> Also sounds like your computer might have crashed on you. I know I 
>> had a problem whenever my system would come out of hibernation mode 
>> where it would crash and reboot on me. I Googled it and saw that 
>> others were having the same problem. This was on my Dell at the 
>> office. I changed my power management settings to never go into 
>> hibernation, and this solved my problems. I don't mind since I almost 
>> always either power off my computer or just go into sleep mode.
>>
>> You might want to also check your power settings to see if your 
>> system is hibernating on you.
>>
>> On 05/27/2018 11:59 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Using a desktop computer, running windows 10, version 1803, and Jaws 
>>> 2018, the April update.
>>>
>>> I have an interesting behavior of my computer, coming out of sleep 
>>> mode.
>>>
>>> If I put the computer to sleep for like 5 or 10 minutes, and bring 
>>> it out of sleep, it's fine, no problems with speech. However, I put 
>>> the computer to sleep yesterday morning, about 530, and then, just 
>>> now, early on Monday morning, when I brought the computer out of 
>>> sleep mode, I heard the computer speak 2 words, then, I had no 
>>> speech. So I had to do a hard shut down, but instead of the computer 
>>> shutting down, it rebooted, and started just fine, and I had speech.
>>>
>>> So, what do you all think about this?
>>>
>>> Harry
>>>
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