As it is a new pc you will have quite a lot of updates to do. To get to Windows Update on Windows 7 when you press the Windows key type wuapp and then press enter.
You will land in Windows Update and on the Install Updates Button - DO NOT PRESS ANYTHING YET! You need to shift tab and check all the updates you want - you need to especially look out for Internet Explorer Updates as depending on the version of your screen reader you might not want to update to IE 9 just yet - I only know that with Jaws 11 you need to stick to IE8 - so you do not want to update to ie9. It might be worth just takint the time now to do your updates manually as once certain updates are done you will need to restart your pc - rather than having your pc take ages to shut down and restart next time do them all now then you can be sure when you restart your pc the updates you are installing will be done because your pc will restart and your screen reader will come on again. You might have to do several reboots depending on what updates need to be done as some updates do not show until you have installed previous updates - in the same area if you do shift tab to check for updates then you can be sure for a while your pc will be fine. Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) & Elliot RTG (Retired Guide Dog) London, UK Multiple Installer http://ninite.com Flash Updater http://updateflash.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Sent: 12 August 2011 17:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] a problem shutting down in windows 7 Hello there; Well, there's 2 ways you can shutdown; 1, go to desktop and press alt+f4 you will be asked, what you want the computer to do, so, use arrow key and choose shutdown. The second way is, Go to start menu, you hear, Menu search edit, Just left arrow you should land on shut down split button, just press enter. As for the updates? Yu can find these, by going to desktop, Highlight computer, Bring up properties, Now tab and enter on, Check for updates, Then you can tab to see how many updates there are, Or conversely, You can choose update from the shutdown menu, and the computer will update then shut down. Maybe one of the updates is the service pack 1, and you will need to check that one. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rosemarie Chavarria Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] a problem shutting down in windows 7 Hi, everyone, I just got a new computer last week. It has windows 7 home premium on it but I'm having a bit of a problem shutting down when I do it through the start menu. It takes quite awhile to shut down. A friend of mine told me to hit the power button but not as if to do a hard shutdown. I'm also being asked to install new updates all the time after I've already done so. Is there something I might be doing wrong? Any helpful hint or suggestion will be very much appreciated. Thanks so much in advance. Rosemarie 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
