I have a partial solution for the Control Panel! The crazy default view is
called "Category" view. Vista had a button to switch to "Clasic" view, that
allowed all of the Control Panels to be viewed like a folder and be
displayed in List view. In Windows 7, it is possible to list in something
like a folder view as well.
Go to the Control Panel. Press Control + E, to move focus to the search
box. Tab once to the "Catagory" button. Activate the control by pressing
Space. A context menu will appear! There will be a Large Icon and Small
Icon options as well as Category. Either of the icon views will provide all
of the familiar Control Panels in alphabetical order. First letter
navigation also works. List and Detail views are not available. Strangely,
pressing Tab on a Control Panel will move you to the next Control Panel, so
I am not sure what this actually looks like or what Magic control type they
are using.
Don Marang
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From: "Silly Goose" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:41 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] facing problems in windows 7
I agree that Windows 7 has many difficult changes and if my new laptop did
not have the numberpad built in I might have given up and gone back to my
XP laptop. I have finally gotten used to the start menu and I agree
that the new control panel is the pits. Mostly I have to use the search
box and put in the name of the old control panel to see where it is
hiding.
The hardest thing to deal with is the way folders are displayed. With my
XP laptop I never used Windows Explorer with the stupid tree view. I
always just stored everything in folders and navigated that way. Now you
have to tab many times to get to a list view but at least the first letter
navigation does work there. Previously I always moved files by using cut
and paste and that does work to some extent but sometimes when I go to
delete a file or folder that was previously moved or copied it will say
that I can't because the file can't be found. So especially in the Library
folders I resort to the "Move to folder..." and deal with the stupid tree
view to avoid losing the files.
I have made some progress with the email, however.
After much agonizing I finally got Windows Live Mail set so that it is
reasonably usable and almost as good as Outlook Express. I managed to
import all my old mail and address books and get it to do pretty much what
I want it to do. The main thing it lacks is first letter navigation but I
sort of work around that.
If anyone is interested I can try to write down how my settings are set
and how I use various folders to navigate and such.
By the way I did install the 7.whatever version of Eudora on my Win 7 64
bit laptop and by replacing the Eudora data folder with my Eudora data
folder from my old laptop I was able to access all my saved mail. I used
Eudora for years until I started using Gmail as an alternate email and I
could not figure out how to add another personality or set up the Gmail
configuration on Eudora. The main thing I don't like about Eudora is that
when it opens an email all the headers show and it does not always start
reading automatically and when it does it can't always find the end of the
headers to know where to start.
The version with ads is free and works fine since with a screen reader you
never even know the ads are there and the junk filtering is unnecessary
since most providers scan the email anyway.
I did download the Thunderbird and sent a test message that went but
couldn't figure out intuitively what to do so I am not using it.
I would have chosen to try Outlook but the Office 2007 I have does not
include Outlook and since I am having pretty good luck with the WLM I
don't want to put out the money for Outlook at this time
Sherrie Gosling
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From: "Kliph" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:43 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] facing problems in windows 7
There is no email client in windows 7. You will have to use windows live
mail, or thunderbird, or use outlook 2007 or 2003. But outlook express
is
not an option.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trepan Singh
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Blind-Computing] facing problems in windows 7
Hi friends, recently I installed windows 7, I'm facing many problems in
this
window. Such as absence of outlook express ETC. Please suggest me some
tutorials so that I'll get correct information about it.
Thanks
Trepan Singh
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