Hi Peggy, Many of us do use the standard keybord layout on laptops and netbooks. You have to use the FN key as a modifier to use the embedded keypad. For instance, FN-J corresponds to numpad-1 and will move the mouse to the bottom left. FN-U is the numpad-4 or left arrow and will move the mouse pointer to the left. So if you want to move the mouse to the left by a word, you would have to press CTRL-FN-U (corisponding to ctrl-numpad-4). That is only a couple of examples, but you get the idea. It takes a little getting used to, but not as much as learning the laptop keyboard layout. Also it might take a little experimenting (or sited help) to figure out where some of the keys are. For example, on my netbook, there is no dedicated home and end keys. These are FN-LEFT ARROW and FN-RIGHT ARROW. So to jump to the top of a web page I need to use CTRL-FN-LEFT ARRO. I used to use the laptop layout but switched to the standard layout and like it much better. Also it makes it less of a strain on my brain when I switch between a laptop and a standard full-size keybord which I do every day.
Good luck! Scott -----Original Message----- From: Peggy Kern [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:11 PM To: GW Micro Subject: Re: Got a netbook Well, it turned out Hubby's machine was just a DVD maker and wouldn't do CD's; so I took everyone's advice and copied the contents of the Window-Eyes CD onto a USB drive I have, and installed from that. Now I just need to learn the keyboard. There are keys in weird places (the FN key, and some kind of key with a squiggle on it that my husband doesn't know what it does), and just generally a different keyboard. I got a numpad keyboard thing, but sometimes when I'm trying to move the mouse around with it, it will say numlock on or numlock off, but won't seem to do what I expect it to do. I might have to learn the WE laptop layout, but I really don't want to have to learn new commands for an old program. Any suggestions? Peggy http://kernsac.livejournal.com http://facebook.com/kernsac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: RE: Got a netbook > Hi Peggy: > > The USB CD/DVD machine should work for installing Widow-Eyes. That's what > we used for our netbooks and it worked great. > > Ray Campbell > [email protected] > > Check out my blog: packerbackerray.blogspot.com > Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/packerbackerray > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:27 AM > To: Andy Baracco; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Got a netbook > > Not so, you can download upgrade files only, except by special > arrangement. > However if you have a network, then you should be able to hook up your > laptop to the network, otherwise copy the entire CD to a flash drive and > install that way. > > Andy Baracco <[email protected]> wrote: > >> if you have a serial number, you can download it from the net. >> Andy >> At 09:08 PM 9/16/2009, you wrote: >> > Hi, all. My husband and I just got a netbook tonight; it's a >> > Toshiba, not sure what kind. My question is about installing >> > Window-Eyes on it. We talked about buying a portable CD ROM to use, >> > but my husband was concerned that we wouldn't use it for anything >> > else. My husband has a CD/DVD machine that connects to the desktop >> > computer via USB, and he thinks it will read computer CD's, so we're >> > going to try plugging that into the netbook to see if we can install >> > from that. If for some reason we can't, is there any other way to >> > install WE onto the netbook without spending another $70? I know >> > there's the thing where you can run WE from a flash drive or >> > something, which I've never done. Will that allow me to install it >> > and keep it on a netbook without always having to keep a flash drive >> > plugged in? 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