[gui-talk] about JAWS

[Frendly_Nadia]

If you bought jaws this summer and scail number and all that but do not
have an SMA can I do an upgrade from 12 or how does that work will they be
nice and cut me some slack?



On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> Humberto:
>
> Apparently, the operating system on your laptop is Xp Professional while
> that on your home system is for Xp Home. The underlying JAWS software is
> the
> same; some of the facilities designed to work with Professional versions of
> the operating systems require the upgraded license which does cost bucks.
>
> However, if you call JAWS Tech Support -- the (727) 443-8600 number (at
> least that's what I remember) and ask for help recovering your license info
> or to send you a new authorization disk, they probably can do this without
> charge or for only a dollar or two. You should have the serial number JAWS
> had on the crashed machine to assist them (the serial number JAWS now says
> won't be the correct one as it's running in 40-minute mode).
>
> Question: why not ask the FS folks some of the questions you're asking
> here?
> While we can help you, it's FS who can straighten you out. And you won't be
> able to avoid spending money forever! (grin)
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Humberto Avila
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:27 PM
> To: deniserob at gmail.com
> Cc: gui-talk at nfbnet.org; nabs-l at nfbnet.org; villagers at gmail.com
> Subject: [gui-talk] about JAWS
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently downloaded JAWS on my computer which had a crash last week. My
> computer is running fine now that I have installed everything. I was able
> to
> activate JAWS with one of the JAWS license keys that I still have when I
> got
> my laptop and the JAWS disks. However, whenever I start JAWS, the following
> message is displayed:
> "JAWS
> This application is not authorized for Windows XP Professional, Windows
> 2000, or Windows NT 4.0
> operating systems.
> Contact your local distributor or Freedom Scientific at 727-803-8000 or
> sales at freedomscientific.com for information about updating your product
> for
> these operating
> systems.
> OK "
>
> when I click OK on the message, it goes back to the tiring 40-minute mode.
> What should I do? do I just call the JAWS people and let them know of this?
>
> also, is it possible to update my license to be used on windows xp for
> free?
> if not, how much would this cost?
>
> BTW, I guess I learned something else, because I didn't know JAWS licenses
> could be specifically designed for different windows systems.
>
> any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Humberto
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