Hi Chip,
The program link seems to no longer there, have they closed it down?
I always worry about viruses that say they clean your registry and instead
clean your computer.
I attempted the links and got the 404 error.
Bruce
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:31 PM
Subject: RE: brand new pcs
My apologies for not trying this out first before I mentioned it.
With thanks to Aaron, it turns out the issue is that this program normally
doesn't respond to the tab key. You can use the mouse cursor for now, and
click on the "next" button (and other controls) as needed.
I had thought if I had the time, of writing an app to make it work with tab
moving the focus. I do wonder if other programs are produced like this,
from some common development environment, and we could recognize them in an
app, then we could make an app that would make all of them work properly
with keyboard commands.
I'm copying this to the scripting list, to see if anyone there recognizes
the programming environment that turned this program out.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris H [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:55 AM
To: Chip Orange; [email protected]
Subject: Re: brand new pcs
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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>
nd-faster.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gi
> zmosTechTips+%28Gizmo%27s+Tech+Tips%29>
>
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> %29
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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