I use Nvda and cannot seem to do anything with it. I only had a brief
play with it though. But tabbing alone doesn't yield much. I could only
see a check box and a property sheet and occasionally a radio button. So
the program appears to rely heavily on the screen reader's mouse
emulation features. Worse still there doesn't appear to be any
documentation with the program. I guess you get what you pay for.
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On 18/11/2013 23:31, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi all,
I don't have a brand new pc, so I didn't try and run this utility, I just
passed this tip along.
After doing so, I got an email from someone who said he was unable to get it
to run satisfactorily (at least with Window-Eyes).
Has anyone else tried this utility? What were your results please?
Thanks.
Chip
From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: brand new pcs
Below is an article from Gizmo Tech Tips on a free utility which removes all
the third-party programs thrown on to a new pc. Pay special attention to
the fact that by default, this utility removes everything (which would
include Window-Eyes) which isn't part of Windows, so you'll want to
configure it for the manual mode, where you get to review its changes before
they take place:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/free-app-make-your-new-pc-cleaner-an
d-faster.htm?utm_source=feedburner
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Unfortunately, when you buy a new PC, one of the first things you have to do
is clean
off the third-party junk software (more colorfully known as crapware) that
the PC
manufacturer has loaded on it. The manufacturers get paid to stick a lot of
trialware
and other largely extraneous stuff on new PCs. It clutters your desktop and
hard
drive and slows things down with unwanted processes automatically running in
the
background.
You can go through the laborious process of uninstalling the stuff one by
one or
you can use one of the free programs that have been designed specifically
for this
task. A long-term regular in this category is PC Decrapifier (
reviewed here
) but there is now a more recent entry worth looking at called "Decrap".
Decrap is from the well-known software vendor Macecraft. It is free but is
based
on one of the components of a commercial suite of Windows system tools sold
by Macecraft.
A description of the application and the download links are
at this page
.. There is a version with an installer as well as a zipped portable version.
The
link for the portable version is easy to miss but is in small print under
the big
download button for the installer version. I only tried the portable
version. The
program is said to run in all current Windows versions and in both 32- and
64-bit
systems. It worked for me in Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit. The
portable
version should be placed in its own folder since it creates some cache and
settings
files when used.
This program is best used on a new computer before you have installed any of
your
own programs. Programs can be removed manually or in an automatic mode. This
latter
should be used with great care since it uninstalls
all
third-party software. Anything you installed yourself will also be removed
in the
automatic mode.
The program will create a list of items that it targets for possible
removal. Here
are the categories of items that can be removed:
Automatically starting software
Desktop items
Start menu items
Third party software
Windows related software.
The default serttng has every item in the list checked for removal so you
will need
to uncheck whatever entries you wish to keep before running the manual
process.The
removal process also includes a deletion of Registry entries for programs
that are
uninstalled.
There is an automatic backup process but it is always advisable to create
your own
backup before using programs of this type.
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