Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

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Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hi,

I had this same thing happen today while in my documents folder, so it must be a global windows thing, but not a nonwindows software thing. It has not happened in Firefox or adobe yet.

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hey.

Well, maybe, maybe not, as to it being a global windows thing. Edge, at least, is a part of Windows. And any browser, if you have notifications turend on, will have a piece of it running in background to bring up alerts of various kinds. It does seem like something or other is running in the background without your volition.

Hi,

I had this same thing happen today while in my documents folder, so it must be a global windows thing, but not a nonwindows software thing. It has not happened in Firefox or adobe yet.

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

If it is, then it is embedded in Windows and has only popped up since the most recent update. I get it about a minute or two after opening Outlook, Edge, and even documents. It doesn’t seem to occur in Firefox or Adobe.

Karen

Hey.

Well, maybe, maybe not, as to it being a global windows thing. Edge, at least, is a part of Windows. And any browser, if you have notifications turend on, will have a piece of it running in background to bring up alerts of various kinds. It does seem like something or other is running in the background without your volition.

Hi,

I had this same thing happen today while in my documents folder, so it must be a global windows thing, but not a nonwindows software thing. It has not happened in Firefox or adobe yet.

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
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Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

I have no idea what it is, but the nature of the message just screams infection of some kind.  Since it's fast and easy, I'd suggest:
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Doing an Offline Scan with Windows Security

Note:  Doing an Offline Scan will restart your computer.  Save any work in progress and close all programs before proceeding.

1.        Open Settings, Update & Security, Windows Security Pane.

2.       Activate the Open Windows Security button.

3.       In Windows Security, open Virus & threat protection.

4.      Activate the Scan options link.

5.       Activate the radio button for Windows Defender Offline Scan. 

6.       Activate the Scan Now button.  Your machine will restart and the scan will be performed prior to rebooting into Windows 10 or 11.

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If that doesn't find and fix anything, then my next steps would be:

1. Using DISM (Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management) and SFC (System File Checker) to Repair Windows 8.1, 10 & 11

2. Performing a Windows 10 or 11 Repair Install or Feature Update Using the Windows ISO file

If #1 fixes the issue, #2 is unnecessary.

So far, yours is the only report I've seen anywhere of this specific behavior.

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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically.

            ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, 

               T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Thanks. Took care of notifications and no change. Must be Office.

Karen

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hey.

Yeah, I was starting to think that wasn’t it.

It could be an office thing I suppose. I have office 2016 myself and there is a popup that comes up pretty much immediately after I run one of the programmes. I just press escape to get rid of it, but it’s complaining about office not being “genuine”, whatever the hell that means (I bought it from a non-microsoft source,a dmittedly, but seems fair and square to me)…

Thanks. Took care of notifications and no change. Must be Office.

Karen

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

I did figure your error message out. You need to log into your Microsoft account and have it accepted there. Otherwise they don’t know about it.

Karen

Hey.

Yeah, I was starting to think that wasn’t it.

It could be an office thing I suppose. I have office 2016 myself and there is a popup that comes up pretty much immediately after I run one of the programmes. I just press escape to get rid of it, but it’s complaining about office not being “genuine”, whatever the hell that means (I bought it from a non-microsoft source,a dmittedly, but seems fair and square to me)…

Thanks. Took care of notifications and no change. Must be Office.

Karen

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

Hah, well, I sure don’t have a microsoft account. Every year I want one less and  less. The more they try to force the issue I guess the more I push back.

I did figure your error message out. You need to log into your Microsoft account and have it accepted there. Otherwise they don’t know about it.

Karen

Hey.

Yeah, I was starting to think that wasn’t it.

It could be an office thing I suppose. I have office 2016 myself and there is a popup that comes up pretty much immediately after I run one of the programmes. I just press escape to get rid of it, but it’s complaining about office not being “genuine”, whatever the hell that means (I bought it from a non-microsoft source,a dmittedly, but seems fair and square to me)…

Thanks. Took care of notifications and no change. Must be Office.

Karen

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

The newer computers force you to create one. Having one does help keep track of your software.

Karen

Hah, well, I sure don’t have a microsoft account. Every year I want one less and  less. The more they try to force the issue I guess the more I push back.

I did figure your error message out. You need to log into your Microsoft account and have it accepted there. Otherwise they don’t know about it.

Karen

Hey.

Yeah, I was starting to think that wasn’t it.

It could be an office thing I suppose. I have office 2016 myself and there is a popup that comes up pretty much immediately after I run one of the programmes. I just press escape to get rid of it, but it’s complaining about office not being “genuine”, whatever the hell that means (I bought it from a non-microsoft source,a dmittedly, but seems fair and square to me)…

Thanks. Took care of notifications and no change. Must be Office.

Karen

Hey karen.

You say you mostly use edge?

TO turn off notifications in edge: Go to settings, cookies and site permissions, notifications. There might be an option to turn off for all websites (I haven’t really used edge so I’m not sure, but I have google chrome and firefox set to not give these)…otehrwise, you’ll see a list of websites that are currently allowed, and you can block any or all of them.

To go to your browser extensions, I believe what you want is to hit the address bar with alt-d (or however you normally get to the address bar), then tab until you hear “browser extensions” or something similar. If you go to “manage extensions” you’ll see everything that’s installed on your browser. It’s possible that something there is causing the alerts. I’m only theorising. They could be coming from something that’s not a web browser, but that seems the most likely possibility. Also, the message you say is coming up doesn’t seem grammatically correct, which is not something I’ve ever seen in a Windows native component.

Hi,

How do I turn this off?

Karen

Hey karen.

I would start by turning off notifications from browsers, and checking your browser extensions, to see what extensions are running. If you don’t recognise something, remove it, or post about it here and someone can tell you if it’s something you actually want or not. It sounds like you have something unwanted running. Not necessarily malicious, but certainly obstructive.

Hi,

Since the latest Windows 11 update last week, I’ve been getting this message that Jaws speaks about a minute or so after the program is opened. So far it happens in Outlook, often while reading a message. It also happens in Edge while reading an article or other page, even listening to a video. Always about a minute or so into it, and earlier today it caused Jaws to stop reading an article. It stated the below message and just stopped. I had to restart it reading again.

Alert!
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top
Click to back to the top

Any ideas what this is? It is quite annoying.

Karen

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 06:05 PM, JM Casey wrote:

Well, it’s not the computers that do it. It’s windows, upon installation.

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A distinction without difference given the context under discussion is new computers that come with Windows 11.

Personally, I just don't see why the Microsoft Account causes so much consternation among so many.  You have to have an Apple ID in the Mac and iOS worlds, Google Account in order to use Android as designed or a Chromebook, and others.  Microsoft was very late, indeed, to this arena and with things like M365, OneDrive, and all sorts of cloud-connected services that users want under Windows you have to have a Microsoft Account to link all those services together (not unlike Google for Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Voice, Contacts, etc., etc., etc.)

I personally hate, hate, hate device encryption where it's not needed, and I have it turned off on all of my Windows machines.  You can turn it off when you first set up a Windows machine, too, and should do so ASAP so the work needed by the computer itself, and the corresponding time, is minimized.  But for those who don't do this and/or don't know about Device Encryption or BitLocker, having that Microsoft Account is a godsend because the encryption key is associated with the Microsoft Account linked to the Windows 10 account you set up during out of the box experience.

Now that we are firmly into the age of cloud computing, the idea that an account to link all those services together will not be required by default needs to die a quick death.  Resistance really is futile (and, in my opinion, counterproductive).
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically.

            ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, 

               T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023