XP System Restore Messes Up Dragon Naturally Speaking
I’ve grown quite fond of using Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9 (DNS) to dictate my posts whenever I can. It has definitely reduced the time of taking my thoughts from stream-of-conscious mode to a blog entry. Great that is until last Friday. I started up DNS and got a message “The vocabulary you have chosen ‘General – Large’ is incompatible.” It took a while to search online for a reason and a solution. The reason for the error was due an system restore that I had to perform the previous day to get XP up and working after a bad crash. Apparently, the XP Restores routine ALWAYS corrupts your user files. Fortunately it was a simply matter of going into my DNS profile directory, renaming my user profile name to ‘old’ and the backup directory to my user profile name. All is well now!
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Thanks for the share. I have trained DNS for months and now it just won’t start thanks to a system restore I had to do. I really hope this works.
Hello Toufel! Let me know if you have any problems. Hopefully, my post will have helped you. Thanks for visiting!
Thanks a lot. I tried it but was getting some weird error messages. My computer was infected and that’s the reason I had to do a system restore. The problem wasn’t fixed and then I had to use some anti-virus softwares for the job. Maybe one of them messed up some files in the installation directory. Anyways I appreciate your help. I’m going to be one of your regular visitors now