Hi new Jaws users and current members of the Jaws users list, I have updated and added to this short lesson about the Applications key, your best friend, let me know what you think about it. Smiles. Creators update, The application key, your best friend This is a text tutorial, provided freely by The W-10 and Jaws group, all may freely share this text tutorial. Author: Jim Flusche
This text file had now been Updated to the Creators update, new material had been added. The applications key is your best friend in using W-10 with Jaws. As you have read my complete guide, we use the applications key and its context menu to do many things in W-10. For example: *After pressing Windows key+T, takes you to the taskbar and its pinned items. Use your right arrow to move to each pinned item on the Taskbar. *If you wish to remove a pinned item from the Taskbar. Highlight the item, Press the applications key, up arrow to unpin from Taskbar, press enter. *If you wish to start over with the list of pinned items on the Taskbar. Highlight them one by one, press the applications key, arrow up to unpin from the Taskbar, press enter. *Now use the All apps list box, in the start button area, pin all items back to the Taskbar in the order you wish to have them. How do I do this? *Press the windows key or press enter on the start button, either press up or Down arrow or tab two times to, All Apps list box. Use first letter navigation to jump through your list of all the apps and all the programs on your computer. *Tip, you must have an app or program installed starting with a certain letter to use first letter navigation in the All Apps list box. When you find a app or find a program you wish to pin to the Taskbar. Highlight it, Press the applications key, down arrow to, more submenu, right arrow to, pin to the Taskbar, press enter. Do this for all the items you wish to pin to the Taskbar. I use the Taskbar pinned items a lot. For example: After you have pinned your items to the Taskbar, you now have shortcuts for all the pinned items on your Taskbar. Just press the windows key with the number of the pinned item on the Taskbar to open that App or program. For example, on my computer: Pressing Windows key+1, opens Internet Explorer. Pressing Windows key+2, opens Word 2016. Pressing Windows key+3, opens Notepad. Pressing Windows key+4, opens Outlook 2016. Pressing Windows key+5, opens Control Panel. Pressing Windows key+6, opens Windows defender security center. Pressing Windows key+7, opens Jaws 17. Pressing Windows key+8, opens Jaws 18. Pressing Windows key+9, opens iTunes. These are very handy shortcuts for opening your pinned apps or programs that you have pinned to the Taskbar. *Using Quick access, pinned items. *Now you can also use the Windows key+E, to bring up a list of items you have pinned to quick access. Remember in W-10, we now have what is called, File explorer, desktop App. You can set file explorer to open in Quick access or open in This PC. I show you in the complete guide and in the audio lessons, why I use the file explorer to open in quick access. How do I pin items to quick access? The easiest way to do them at one time is to do the following. Press enter on your This PC icon on the desktop. Arrow down and highlight your C: drive. Press Shift+Tab, you are in a tree view of all the stuff on your computer. Use the right arrow to open any closed folder, use the left arrow to close any open folder. *Press the applications key on any folder, file, drive, or location you wish to pin to quick access. Arrow down to, pin to quick access, press enter. Now where ever you are on your computer, when you press Windows key+E, you will open a list of pinned items that you have pinned to quick access. *For example on my computer, after pressing windows key+E, I hear the following. Frequent folders expanded, as I press the Down arrow, I hear. Desktop Downloads Documents OneDrive This PC Seagate Expansion Drive (E:) Windows (C:) My Users folder. *First letter navigation works in the quick access, list of pinned shortcuts. You can also pin many things to your desktop. *How do I pin programs to the desktop? Press the Windows key, press up or down arrow, to go directly to the All Apps list box in the start button area. *Remember first letter navigation works in the All Apps list box. Highlight the program you wish to make a desktop shortcut icon for and do the following. Press the applications key. Arrow down to, more sub menu, press the right arrow key. Arrow down to, Open file location, press enter. Press the applications key again, arrow down to, send to sub menu, Right arrow one time. Down arrow to, Desktop, create shortcut, press enter. Now you have pinned an icon for that program on your desktop. Repeat the above steps, to make all your Desktop icons for all your desired programs in W-10. *The Notification chevron button system tray area. Press windows key+B, you will land on the Notification chevron button. Press the Right arrow, to go across all the items you have allowed to show up in the system tray area. After pressing Windows key+B, you will hear, Notification Chevron Button. Pressing the Right arrow several times, on my computer, I hear the following. System Tray No actions needed. Button. JAWS for Windows Button. OneDrive, Up to date Button. *******, Internet access Button. Speakers (USB): 55% Button. System Clock, 12:33 PM, ?5/?30/?2017 clock. Action Center Button. And back to the Notification Chevron Button. *Highlighting any of these icons, you can press the Applications key, and a context menu will come up. *Tip, With Jaws, pressing Insert+F11, will bring up the list of all your system tray icons. *Pressing enter on your icons in this list will bring up a context menu as well. *Devices and printers link. In W-10 Creators update, it's a good idea to pin the Control panel to the Taskbar. *Press the Windows key, type control panel. Use the arrow key, Highlight Control panel, desktop App. Press the Applications key, arrow down to, pin to Taskbar, press Enter. Now open the Control panel. *Tip, opening the Control panel for the first time, Tab one time to categories, press the Spacebar, Down arrow to Small icons, press Enter. Now when you are in the Control panel, first letter navigation works. *So open Control panel, press the letter D, until you hear, Devices and printers link, press Enter. >From left to right, as you press the right arrow key, you will hear something >like the following. Bose USB Audio, 1 of 7. Expansion, My external drive. ****, my computers name. ***My display. USB Keyboard. USB Optical Mouse. USB Device(My microphone). Printers expanded ****(HP Officejet Pro 8600), 1 of 3. Microsoft Print to PDF. Send To OneNote 2016. *You can press the Applications key on any of these items, to bring up a list. You may troubleshoot, make default, change settings, and you may do many other things from this list for each item, after highlighting the item and pressing the Applications key. *Desktop icons. You may highlight any Desktop icon and press the Applications key, to bring up a list of items. *For example. Press Windows key+M, focus on the Desktop. Press the letter J, until you hear Jaws 18, this will highlight Jaws 18. Now press the Applications key, you will hear the following as you down arrow. Open. Open file location. Run as administrator. Troubleshoot compatibility. Pin to Start. Scan with Windows Defender... Unpin from taskbar. Restore previous versions. Send to sub menu. Cut. Copy. Create shortcut. Delete. Rename. Properties. You will wrap around back too, Open. *The Taskbar. After pressing Windows key+T, you will land on the first item pinned to the Taskbar. *Press the right arrow key to highlight any item pinned to the Taskbar. Press the Applications key on any highlighted item pinned to the Taskbar. For example. Highlight Outlook 2016, press the Applications key, as you down arrow, you will hear. Items List box, New Email Message, 1 of 5. New Appointment, 2 of 5. New Meeting New Contact New Task Actions List box, Outlook 2016, 1 of 2. Unpin from taskbar, Items List box. *Tip, in the Start button area, you can press the Applications key on any highlighted item to bring up a context menu for that item. After pressing the windows key, tab one time to, Start list box. Tab two times to, All Apps list box. Tab three times to, Pinned tiles List box. On any highlighted item in these lists, press the Applications key to bring up a list of actions you can do in the Start area. For example. Highlight an app, press the Applications key, go down to uninstall, press the Spacebar, press the Spacebar again to confirm. *Tip, many of the apps are built in to W-10, you cannot uninstall them, you can turn their live tile off, and turn them off under the background apps in Settings. *In the Pinned tiles List box, turn off most of the live tiles and unpin them from Start. When in the Pinned tiles List box, use your arrow keys to find the Group headers. *Tip, the group headers may be side by side, or in a list. The items pinned below each header might be listed from left to right, so use your arrow keys to highlight one of them. Highlight one of the pinned items you wish to turn off it's live tile and remove it from the pinned tiles area, and do the following. On the highlighted item, Press the Applications key, arrow down to, More sub menu, right arrow to Turn Live tile off, press the Spacebar. Highlight the same item, press the Applications key, press the Spacebar on remove from Start. Do this on all the items you wish to turn off their live tiles and remove them from Start. In the W-10 Creators update, you will have a lot of live tiles here in the Pinned tiles list box, by default, most of them need to be turned off. So as you can see by the lesson above, the applications key is your best friend in W-10! Review: What you have pinned to the Taskbar. Just press the windows key+ the numbered position of the pinned item to the Taskbar, to open that item, like Windows key+1, opens internet explorer on my computer. Again, this is very convenient, I use this most of the time to open my programs. What you have pinned to quick access. Just press Windows key+E. Again you can press this very convenient keystroke anywhere to bring up a list of pinned items, such as files, folders, drives, or other stuff, that you have pinned to quick access. You can press Windows key+m, to go to your desktop. You can press first letter navigation; to find all the programs, apps, and internet shortcuts, you have pinned to your desktop. Just press enter to open a highlighted desktop icon, or press the Applications key, to bring up a list of items on any highlighted desktop icon. *While using Internet explorer. When you come across a website you wish to pin to the desktop. While on that website, Press ALT+f, for the file menu. Arrow down to, Send sub menu, right arrow one time. Down arrow to, Shortcut to desktop, press enter. To confirm, press the spacebar. Now you have convenient shortcuts to your favorite websites right on your desktop. 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