Hi, Chris, My favorite operating system was windows 98. See message on other list.
Rosemarie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of chris hallsworth Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum? Hello all! what was your favourite operating system in the history of computing? Also what about software? My favourite operating system in the history of computing is probably Windows 95 and I was using JAWS as my screen reader. My favourite software was a product by PowerQuest called Second Chance. (I wonder if anyone remembers having that preinstalled on their old machines?) I certainly did and it was brilliant! The program is basically System Restore but for data as well as system. What Second Chance did was created "checkpoints" at regular intervals. You can then restore individual files and folders, or even an entire system, to that particular checkpoint. Checkpoint 1 was always the "initial" checkpoint either after Second Chance was first installed or you have enabled a drive to be monitored after it being disabled. One problem Second Chance did do was corrupt the JAWS authorization keys that were used way back then. You know, the ones that consisted of a special floppy disk? This is because, as I soon found out, a hidden/system file jfw.cps was backed up by Second Chance each time JAWS modified it. So of course when you restored an entire system to an earlier checkpoint you lost authorization in the process. But apart from that it was brilliant! How I wish they'd brought it back to make it work for Windows 7! -- Sent using Thunderbird For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
