Hi Vetri and all,
Thanks to everyone who helped me with Vista. I finally ran out of patience,
formatted my machine and installed Windows XP. It is delightful to have XP
with a flying machine. I will never move back to the clutter that is called
Vista again if I can help it.
Geetha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vetrivel Adhimoolam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:51 AM
Subject: [AI] Vista configuration
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.
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