If you just have the installation files, all your customize settings will not be with you wherever you go. even if you bring all your settings folder with you, you will need to spend time doing the installation and so on.
I have create my own portable folder of window-eyes from a few version but with a few common folders inside. 1. Runtime folder with the 2 .net installer 2. wevideo folder with the video intercept on it. It works for all the x86 and x64 machine I gone through and troubleshoot for clients. As for the browse mode, the default behaviour I believe is what the sighted folks are looking as well. If you bring up google.com The focus or the caret or cursor is landed on the search box or edit box by default if you are using IE or firefox. So there's no need for them to click on the box and then follow by typing what they want to search. If you want the old behaviour beforeWE 8 Go to verbosity, browse mode. Then to autoload find this option call automatic form interaction turn it to off and save your settings and it should be back to the old settings or how browse mode work or during the new interaction browse mode, just hit ctrl - slash / to toggle it. this is also one good example when portable version of window-eyes comes in, the settings you want with window-eyes go whenever and wherever you go if you want that new function to be turn off. -------------------- regards Thomas N. Chan -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 5:35 PM To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv Subject: Window-eyes installation and Browse mode behavior @Thomas N. Chan I like your thinkin'. And again Manny, if you just literally copy the Window-eyes CD verbatim to any other kind of media and run the installer that way it should definitely work. Reason being that although I didn't know about what Thomas said, if you've got a verbatim copy of the original Window-eyes CD, even if it is in an alternative form, it could copy and create and update whatever (if anything) it needed to dynamically. Regarding the browse mode behavior debate, I'd just like to weigh in here with my thoughts, those being that I believe the redesigned browse mode behavior could be due to one of two primary reasons, if not both at the same time. What I mean is this. Richard Applegate observed that "Window-Eyes is placing you exactly where the Google site tells Window-Eyes to place you.". I believe that's the answer that we'd get from the Gw Micro tech support staff, probably because they would argue that they are making their best effort to ensure that Window-eyes conforms with up-to-date web standards. Also, I (probably like a lot of you here) have several friends who give Jaws all the credit in the world for everything screen reader related, while Window-eyes rarely (if ever) gets mentioned unless somebody like me as a Window-eyes user specifically steps up and defends the capabilities of Window-eyes. Pre window-eyes 8, a lot of the people I know who use Jaws very much disliked the fact that Window-eyes did not automatically place you, with forms mode turned on, in the first edit box on the page. Has anybody else noticed that Gw Micro has recently begun making a noticeable effort to woo Jaws users to make the switch? I'm not saying that it is, but I am saying that it could, potentially, be connected with that. Because Jaws users would want things that way don'tcha know, and after all, Freedom Scientific knows best about everything, for everybody, in every situation, everywhere! Haha, yeah. Right. Keep tellin' yourself that. In my opinion Freedom Science Fiction is more like it. Seriously though, I think that for the simple sake of professionalism and corporate respectability, that Window-eyes should indeed conform as closely as possible to the most up-to-date web standards. Specifically with regard to technologies like ARIA and HTML5. I eagerly await your feedback. Respectfully submitted, Brandon Dean Miller On 2/11/2013 9:00 PM, GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv wrote: > 19 Messages: > > #1 > Subject: The W-E control panel and the system tray > From: Reg Webb<[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:14:16 +0000 > > Hi > > I'm running W-E8 under XP, and I have it set to run in the system tray. > When I open the control panel to get an app update for example, the > control panel refuses to go back to the system tray when I close out > the updater, and press escape to close the control panel. I have to > kill W-E and restart it to get it to behave. Is this currently inevitable? > > > > Reg Webb > > #2 > Subject: A few observations > From: Brandon Miller<[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:54:53 -0800 > > Hello everyone, my name is Brandon Miller. I've never posted to this > list before, but I've known about it for years and as someone who has > been a Window-eyes user for a very, very long time, I'd like to see if > there's anything I can do that may help to remedy some of the problems > written about in the last digest list I got. For reference, I've been a > user of Gw Micro products since the Vocal Eyes days! For those who may > not know, Vocal Eyes was a screen reader for the Ms Dos operating > system. Anyway, here are my observations: > > 1. To Bob Jutzi, and Andrea Sherry. The only synthesizers that I > personally use are Eloquence, and a version of the RealSpeak Jill voice > that I got last summer from Nextup.com. I bought the 22 KHZ version and > I love it. I use it on a daily basis, and I at least do not experience > the mispronunciations that you are. I feel like one thing that makes > things confusing is that there are several companies willing to sell TTS > (or text-to-speech) voices, and although I haven't ever tried to > definitively prove this, I believe that the voices are mostly all just > given different names by different companies for marketing purposes. In > other words, what I'm saying is that to me, it sounds like the actual > sampled data used to create the voices is all the same, and just given > different names for the sake of marketing by different companies. I do > know for a fact that the company Nuance is a very heavy hitter, and they > have in truth actually put in a lot of time and energy to develop their > own original products and technologies. I also like and respect > Loquendo, Cepstral, and Ivona as far as TTS voice development companies > are concerned, pretty much in that order. As far as solutions for the > annoyances that you're experiencing, what you were told about the > Extended dictionary ap makes a lot of sense. I used to have it > installed, and it may in fact be a solution for you because with it, you > can indeed define specific pronunciations for specific synthesizers. > It's a very powerful app and I have a lot of respect for the person who > developed it. They obviously put a lot of time and hard work in to it. > > 2. To manny. I completely agree with Steve Jacobson's suggestion. > Proceeding with his suggestion should in fact work flawlessly, because > it's essentially the exact same thing as inserting a CD into a CD drive > and running through the setup procedure that way. What may have caused > the problem that you experienced has to do with the original setup > procedure making various registry entries, updates, modifications, Etc. > as Window-Eyes in being newly installed. The registry on your computer > post Window-Eyes installation could in fact be vastly different from the > registry on your friend's computer, and that's what could cause > installation errors to occur using the method that you tried to use. > Taking Steve's suggestion would be the exact same thing as doing a fresh > install, which should eliminate the possibility of a bad install altogether > > 3. To Sandy. I am unfortunately experiencing the exact same kind of > browse mode problems that you are.. I've called and spoke with the tech > support department of Gw Micro, and have been basically told to hold on, > hang tight, that they're aware of the issue but because it's relatively > hard to reproduce on command, more investigation is going to have to be > done on their part. They did suggest redrawing the screen when these > annoyances occur to see if that solves the problem, but for me at least, > it annoyingly does not. One work around that I've found is to alt-tab > away from the app that's giving you problems, and do make sure that you > actually let go of the alt key so that focus is actually moved in to > another application altogether, and then alt-tab back in to your > original app. That's the only thing I've found that works. Also, I told > the tech support team at Gw Micro that I'm experiencing the behavior in > both the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers, so it's not > a problem that can be relieved by simply switching browsers, if you're > even the kind of person who would do that. Firefox sometimes actually > seems to almost freeze up altogether. As soon as I notice that > happening, although I almost immediately alt-tab to Window-eyes, even > though by that point I should be completely outside of the Firefox > application, Window-eyes' responsiveness remains extremely sluggish and > delayed for some time after. I know my personal system setup so well > that I can actually audibly hear load increasing and decreasing on my > processor. Speaking of that, for reference, your system seems much more > modern than mine. Haha, I use a Windows XP tower setup, I've got service > pack 3 installed, I'm completely up-to-date as far as Windows update is > concerned, I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials as my malware > solution, I have that app run a full system scan weekly and I do have > automatic updating turned on. My hardware is as follows. I have a > Pentium 4 processor running at 2.00 GHZ, I have 4 gigs of DDR ram > installed as that's all that this particular motherboard will support, > my primary hard drive is a 20 gigabyte drive, and my secondary drive is > a 120 gigabyte drive. As far as web browsing and online connectivity is > concerned, I have Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702, installed, and > Firefox version 18.0.2. I use Thunderbird 17.0.2 as my email client. In > short, I am a highly advanced computer user. I hold the MCSE > certification, so the long and the short of things is that it has > nothing to do with my system. I know my system, intimately, and I did > not begin noticing this behavior from Window-eyes until I installed > Window-eyes 8. As an example of how picky I am about the maintenance of > my machine, when I received the CD version of my WE 8 upgrade, I made > careful note of what apps I had installed, then I completely uninstalled > We 7.5.2 or whatever the last iteration of the WE 7.5 life cycle was, > and installed a brand-new, fresh, clean copy of Window-eyes 8.0. In > short though, you aren't alone Sandy, but I unfortunately don't know > what to tell you as far as how to remedy your particular problem. It > appears to affect both modern and legacy systems, and modern and legacy > apps. 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