It sounds to me like you got a keyboard that was setup for the entering
of foreign characters.
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On 11/26/2012 10:35 PM, M and L Dorn wrote:
No, it was the fault of the Lenovo key assignments. It did not give me
1 thru 0 or, with shift, things like dollar sign and parenthesis. It
gave me things like circumflex A and other foreighn to English special
characters. If I have to remap a bunch of keys on a brand new
computer, it's not the right computer for me.
TTFN,
Marilyn
On 11/26/2012 6:08 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Marilyn, support was next to useless on the foreign symbols thing
because the row above qwerty is the number row! It starts with the
tilde key, then 1,2,3,4, and so on till you get zero, dash, and then
equals. Adding shift to these gives you different symbols such as
parentheses, dollar signs, and so on. It was not the fault of
Window-Eyes at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: M and L Dorn [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:24 PM
To: Chao, Matthew (DOC); GW Info List Post
Subject: Re: Recommended Laptops
I went through this very thing in September. I bought a Lenovo
laptop, and it had so many weird key assignments, such as getting
foreign characters instead of numbers and symbols on the row above
querty, that I took it back. Lenovo's tech support was worse than
useless. I \\\\\\\\bought an HP and had some of the same troubles,
but to a lesser extent. I took it back. I purchased a Dell by calling
them and telling them what I wanted. I had avoided them initially,
even though my last one that is 7 years old was a Dell, because I
thought they would be so much more money. As it turned out, they had
what I needed for $65 less than I paid for the HP. I'd check out Dell
first to see what price you can get. If it's not out of line with
what you can afford, go for it.
If not, then check out the one you want elsewhere carefully to be
sure the numpad works for WE navigation and commands and that the
keys type what they are supposed to. Also on the Lenovo, there was
some special Lenovo window that interfered with everything and was
always in the Alt-Tab cycle. You couldn't close it or delete it.
Lenovo tech support had never heard of it, nor could they find out
anything to explain it to me.
TTFN,
Marilyn
On 11/26/2012 5:55 AM, Chao, Matthew (DOC) wrote:
Hi, Folks. I'm in the process of possibly ordering a new laptop, as I
haven't bought a new one in the past seven years, and want to get a
Windows 7-equipped laptop before everyone goes to Windows 8. Can
anyone recommend a good laptop or ultrabook that works well with WE
7.5.4.1, has Windows 7 Professional, is of high quality, and has
minimal bloatware? I've seen posts that, for example, raise problems
with Lenovos and some Dells. Please advise, as I need to make a
decision relatively quickly. Thanks in advance.--Matthew Chao
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