If you run JAWS and it comes up before the flashing is seen, try INS+S once and see if you can catch any message. -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:45 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Display flashing something Hi Peter. Cannot catch it! It appears only for fractions of a second. Incidentally, I've run Shoot the Messenger and I've still got the problem. Best wishes. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Logue" <peterlogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:21 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Display flashing something > If you don't have time to read that flashing window here's what to do. > As soon as it appears, quickly hit insert plus control plus the letter > W. This will bring up the Jaws virtual viewer. The virtual viewer will > instantly snap a copy of what is in that window, even if the window > quickly disappears. All you have to do then is select all within the > virtual viewer with a control A, then paste it into notepad to have it > read. > > Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Andy > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:09 PM > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Display flashing something > > > Hi Peter. > > If my sound goes again I will check out my Volume Control. Don't want > to mess around too much with the Restore function at the moment Peter. > I'd > > hate to make a mess of it again. > > Regarding the flashing on my display Peter. I exchanged my wireless > keyboard and mouse and plugged in a spare keyboard and mouse to see if > perhaps it was the wireless system that was causing the problem. I > still got the flashing, so that rulls that out. > > I've noticed that just before the flash, my mouse pointer changes to > an egg timer. The message is only up for a brief moment, even Pauline > cannot read > it. It's like a flash across the middle of the screen and it occurs > like a > pulse. Never came across anything like it. I have Norton and did a > full > scan and nothing was picked up. > > You said that it could be messenger. I think I still have Shoot the > Messenger so I'll try running tat later. > > Best wishes. > Andy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Logue" <peterlogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:32 PM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Display flashing something > > >> Hi Andrew, >> Did you check the mute all checkbox within volume control before you >> did a restore? I have often had my system go silent, only to find >> that, for some reason or other, something had disabled all sound by >> having that check box checked. I can't for the life of me determine >> what program caused it specifically, but this has occurred whenever I >> have 1. closed real player, 2, closed Jaws, 3, closed winamp. In all >> cases I closed these programs with an alt F4, which, I think, placed >> a > >> check in the mute all checkbox of volume control. You can either, >> undo > >> the last restore and check out that checkbox, or consider that >> perhaps > >> your flashing window is from Messenger service in which case you will >> need to run shoot the messenger. Another thing you can try is go into >> Sygate and select, allow all from the pull down menu. >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >> Behalf Of Andy >> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:17 PM >> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [access-uk] Display flashing something >> >> >> Hi all. >> >> Yesterday, for no reason, I lost all sound on my computer. Despite >> re-booting a number of times, jaws simply did not come on atboot up. >> I resolved the problem by Restoring my computer back one day. >> However, all day today I am getting a message on my display which is >> not there long enough for even my wife to read. It comes in a flash >> and seems to cover the whole of the centre of the screen. I have my >> computer set onto High Contrast number 2, so the bright flashing >> message is really quite annoying. >> It seems to flash every ten seconds or so. 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