Hi Margaret,
Those settings should be fine as a base line for Jaws.
You may find with time, that you might want to change some of them slightly.
Go with them for now, and you should be just fine.
HTH,
Richard Justice
www.blind-computing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Thomas
To: jaws-users
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:31 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Setting Up JFW for XP Home & IE 7
Hi All,
When my XP Home with SP2 came back from the shop with the new hard drive
and fresh install of XP etc. the classic desktop that was there seems to be
there again, but there is a different Programs set up and I'm hoping that if
I can get it back to the way it was, it might be one less thing my brain has
to adjust to and that maybe there aare also some other settings I should
make to XP to make it work better with JAWS now that IE 7 is on the machine.
I think either the JAWS-users or Blind-Computing home pages have the
instructions, but IE 7 is still giving me fits and finding anything there is
still cumbersome. I found an old post from 2004 from another list that
gives the changes we should make and I wonder if they aare still valid since
they were written for JFW 5.1 and I think IE 6.
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: jfw 5.1 xp settings
Here is the info. The link can be found on the jfw lite page under helpful
hints, I believe.
For your convenience though, here is the actual document from Freedom
Scientific's web site.
Windows XP and JAWS
This topic discusses settings changes we recommend you make when using JAWS
in Windows XP Home or Professional. You must be logged in with
administrative rights to make several of these changes.
Many of these settings are changed within Control Panel. To open Control
Panel, press the WINDOWS KEY to open the Start Menu, move to Control Panel,
and press ENTER. Depending on your system settings, Control Panel either
opens
in a separate window, or the Control Panel items open as a sub-menu.
We recommend making changes in the following areas:
• Display Properties
• Folder Options
• Start Menu
• Windows Explorer
• System Performance
Display Properties
1. From the Control Panel, move to "Display" and press Enter.
2. From the themes combo box, select Windows XP.
3. In the List of backgrounds on the Desktop page, choose Bliss.
4. Set Position to "Stretch".
5. In the Screen Saver combo box on the Screen Saver page, press HOME to
select none.
6. On the Appearance page, set Windows and Buttons to Windows classic style.
7. Set Color Scheme to Windows Standard.
8. Set Font to normal.
9. Close the dialog.
Note: After making these changes, the Display page Themes combo box says
"Modified Theme".
Folder Options
1. From the Control Panel, press ALT+T to go to the Tools menu
2. Press O for Folder Options.
3. From the Tasks radio button group, select Use Windows Classic folders
4. (Optional):
A. On the View page, move to the Advanced Settings tree view.
B. Clear the Hide Extensions For Known File Types check box.
C. If you also use screen magnification software, clear the Show pop-up
description for folder and desktop items check box. Pop up descriptions
often hides
the menu item just below any given menu item, making it impossible to
visually see the next item in the menu list.
D. Move to the Apply to All Folders button and press SPACEBAR.
E. Answer Yes to the dialog that comes up to acknowledge this change.
5. Move to the OK button in the Folder Options dialog box and press SPACEBAR
to close this dialog box.
Start Menu
1. From Control Panel, Move to Taskbar and Start menu and press ENTER.
2. From the Taskbar page, press ALT+G to move to and uncheck Group Similar
Taskbar Buttons.
3. Press ALT+H to move to and uncheck the check box for Hide inactive icons.
4. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Start Menu page.
5. Select Classic start menu.
6. Press ENTER to close this dialog box.
Windows Explorer
1. Press WINDOWS KEY+E to open Windows Explorer.
2. Press ALT+V to open the View menu.
3. Select "Arrange Icons by" and press ENTER to open the submenu.
4. Move to the menu item "Name" to arrange by Name, and Press ENTER to
select this and close the menus.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3, and move to the item "Show in Groups." If it is
checked, press ENTER to uncheck it and close the menus.
6. Press ALT+T to open the Tools menu.
7. Press O to open the Folder Options Dialog.
8. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the View page.
9. Press SPACEBAR to activate the "Apply to all folders" button, and press
SPACEBAR on the YES button to acknowledge this change.
10. Move to the OK button and press SPACEBAR to close this dialog box.
System Performance
1. From the Control Panel, move to System and press ENTER to open the System
Properties Dialog.
2. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Advanced page.
3. Press ALT+S to activate the Performance Settings button. The Performance
Options Dialog opens.
4. Clear the following check boxes:
• Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing.
• Slide open Combo Boxes.
• Smooth-scroll List Boxes.
• Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons.
5. Press ENTER to close the Performance Options dialog and return to the
System Properties dialog box.
6. Press ENTER to activate the OK button and close the System Properties
dialog box.
When I pressed the Windows key, I used to land in the start menu and I
think JAWS announced something like All Programs and a press of "p" landed
me in Programs with Accessories sub menu being the first item and I could
navigate from there.
Now, when I hit the Windows key, JAWS announces start menu Internet.
All programs is still in the list, but so is Word and some of my other
programs, but not all of them. Hitting enter on all programs sub menu
brings up a combination of items such as Windows Catalog that used to be in
the original start menu and more of my programs such as DEC-Talk Access 32.
Would going through all the steps in the old instructions help get my old
start menu and programs back the way they were and is there any point in
going through all of them anyway just to see what else might be set right?
I'm the only client my tech has who uses adaptive equipment and he might
have set things up the way he uses them. There's probably some clue to the
new start menu that I just haven't figured out yet.
I also just seem to have AVG in the Sys Tray if it helps anyone figure
out what is going on.
Thank you,
Margaret
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