I will attempt to answer your questions in order.
1. Press F4 to take you to an address bar that is not in the Tab order. I
am not sure it is even normally visible. This was also available in XP. I
think the text is selected by default, so pressing Control + C as soon as
you move to this field will copy the full folder address to the clipboard.
If you want to copy the full pathname of a file, there is another method.
Hold down the Shift key while pressing the Applications key. This brings up
the right click context menu with a few additional items. One of those
additional items will be "Copy path".
2. Windows 7 and JAWS support a new way of looking at file information in
Windows Explorer. If you have the Details view enabled (Alt + V, followed
by D), the information is now displayed in a table. By arrowing left and
right you can move to read the different columns. This has been previously
available on the Mac and Linux.
3. I am not really too familiar with the "Windows Clasic" theme because I
do not use it. The two differences I know of is that Classic does not use
Aero and the Desktop is not in the Alt + Tab order. Aero is a new, fancy
window special effects theme that makes Windows 7 look cool. JAWS will
disable Aero anyway. In the Classic theme, the Desktop should not appear
when pressing Alt + Tab through the open applications.
Don Marang
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From: "Dujari, Prateek" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 12:58 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] File path,file info and Classic theme in windows7
with JAWS11
Hello all.
I've a new Windows7 PC with JAWS 11 installed and working fine. Have 3 Qs
for the group please.
1. It was very easy to get the file path in Windows explorer in XP by
simply being inside the folder of interest, then tabbing once to find and
copy the patch. How do I copy the full path in Windows7 explorer? those
split buttons on top upon which successively hitting the right arrow shows
u the path doesn't allow me to copy the full path at all I've set the
folder view to details, and only have the navigation pane checked under
the 'layout' option under the 'organize' split button inside windows
explorer.
2. How do I easily see the file date and size with Jaws11 inside Windows7
explorer? Again in XP I would just revert to the JAWS cursor, move it over
the file of interest and JAWS would read out this info. Not so in Windows7
explorer. Tabbing when resting upon a file name just seems to take me to
the diff column headings (name, date etc.) and I believe it only allows u
this way to sort the folder by name or date or so on. Also pl note I don't
want to have to hit the applications key on the kBD then go to the general
tab and find the info there. that seems too long compared to the above
described quicker way that works in XP. so is there a quicker way in
Windows7 explorer?
3. finally, someone earlier on this list recommended changing the windows7
theme to Windows classic which I have done. However I'm curious as to
what should I now expect to find different as a JAWS user? I haven't
really found any difference so far switching the theme to classic.
thx much!
Prateek
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