Hi all, Especially vista users,
I gave the following tips to Geetha and perhaps it can be useful to others as well. Vetri. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vetrivel Adhimoolam To: Shamanna, Geethavani Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Vista Hi Geetha, Mine does not have touch screen. But a few friends of mine do have their laptops with the touch screen and they are sighted. So it seems that it is specific to your hardware configuration. If I were you, I would simply disable the touch screen and find alternatives to work with some of those functions. For example, A CD can be ejected through file menu and so on. But of course it is a bit nonsense, but I guess we have no other option. As for as windows explorer is concern, you can make some changes by going to the folder options. I am assuming that you have made the necessary changes to your display settings to make everything look like Windows classic. If you haven't done so, then you could do them by going to control panel and "personalization". When you get to the folder options, you should make the following changes: Under view menu: Always show icons, never thumbnails-ON Always show menus-ON Display file icon on thumbnails-ON Display file size information in folder tips-ON Display simple folder view in Navigation pane-OFF Display the full path in the title bar (Classic folders only)-OFF Hidden files and folders Do not show hidden files and folders-OFF Show hidden files and folders-ON Hide extensions for known file types-OFF Launch folder windows in a separate process-OFF Managing pairs of Web pages and folders Show and manage the pair as a single file-ON Show both parts and manage them individually-OFF Show both parts but manage as a single file-OFF Remember each folder's view settings-ON Restore previous folder windows at logon-OFF Show drive letters-ON Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color-OFF Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items-ON Show preview handlers in preview pane-OFF Use check boxes to select items-OFF Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended)-ON When typing into list view Automatically type into the Search Box-OFF Select the typed item in the view-ON Click the apply button. Under general tab, Select the radio button: "Use windows classic folders" and click okay. Also under task bar property, select "Windows classic and click enter. I think these settings should hide many items in windows explorer. There still will be an item if you compare it with windows XP, but I think this is the best we can do. That's it and you don't have to make any changes to JAWS since they have already made it compatible with vista. And make sure to turn-off the uacc control under user accounts since it's really a nonsense in terms of it's messages and when they appear, JAWS stops speaking. Hopefully it should help. Vetri. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
