Every single one has successfully copied to my external hard drives and worked when I needed it including all Office CDs and all Windows installation CDs including Win8. ...Now that I think of it, there was one disk that failed, and that was the DVD Player something or other installation disk included with my Windows XP machine, but I think it failed because it was a Dell proprietary disk and not a disk I Purchased from the company. Oddly enough, the actual Dell Windows XP Home disk copied just fine and I used it a few times. The key is to make sure you don't lose your registration strings. I use KeePass to insure this doesn't happen, and KeePass has never, never let me down. Whenever I need to use the Windows installation disk backup, I copy the Windows OS files to a thumb drive and install in this way. The added benefit is that CDs copy files at 2x speed whereas a thumb drive can copy files anywhere from 10mb per second to 80 mb per second depending on the USB interface. In other words, the faster the thumb drive, the faster the installation of Windows. I've installed Win8 in as little as 6 minutes on a solid state drive.
Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Washington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Ongoing problem with Outlook 2007 usingJaws 14or 15beta Copying important installation disks is a great idea and the copy and paste method is simple. Do the copied install disks always work in your experience? -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph FreeTech Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Ongoing problem with Outlook 2007 using Jaws 14or 15beta Wow! that's extreme. Give the installation of a second screenreader a shot. By the way, I always "always" make a copy of important installation CDs. I copy the files to an external hard drive by simply highlighting the disk in "Computer" then pressing Control+C to copy then pasting in my Software folder. I also take an ISO of the original installation CD. Since I began doing this, I've never "lost" an installation disk. this is also faster than putting a Braille label on the CD box. Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Washington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Ongoing problem with Outlook 2007 using Jaws 14or 15beta John, Thanks but I have been having this problem for at least 2 or 3 months now. I cannot tie it to any particular system change or event. I know it was happening before I installed Jaws 15 beta. FS has suggested I try removing Outlook 2007, including the registry entries and then reinstall it and see if that helps. Unfortunately I have misplaced my MS office 2007 disk. FS also suggested reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything. What's that old saying "the cure is worse than the disease"? Greg -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John M. Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Ongoing problem with Outlook 2007 using Jaws 14 or 15beta Greg, This sounds very similar to a problem I was having on a XP system. I don't remember specifically what the culprit was, but I believe that it was another program--possibly the software for my Samsung printer/scanner/fax. Every couple of minutes, it was doing something which caused Jaws to mess up. So, if this is a new behavior, try to determine what has changed on your system just prior to the problem appearing. It may be something as innocent as updated drivers, an application software update or even a Windows patch Tuesday. Was it happening prior to the install of the Jaws 15 beta? Which leads me to a real pet peeve of mine--folks testing out software, especially beta software, on the machine which they rely on daily. I'm sure that others on the list will chime in with other possible solutions. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Washington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:28 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Ongoing problem with Outlook 2007 using Jaws 14 or 15beta >I am trying to identify why Outlook 2007 on my Windows 7 64 bit Toshiba > notebook computer does not work properly with either Jaws 14 or Jaws 15 > beta. I have spoken to both Fs tech support and Microsoft accessibility > support without any success. The problem is that when I open Outlook 2007 > in Jaws 14 or 15 beta Jaws will read emails properly for a while, 3 to 5 > minutes or so. However at some point Jaws stops reading emails that are > in > html format. Jaws presents them in a strange format with many garbled > text > and the html commands such as t to move to tables and h to move to > headings > do not work. Instead the letter t or h will appear in the body of the > email. And the cursor key (+ on the numpad) says pc cursor rather than > virtual pc cursor which it says when Jaws is working properly when reading > open html emails. If I close Outlook and reopen it Jaws will work > properly > again for a few minutes and then revert to not displaying html emails > correctly. > > Fs tech support has been unable to duplicate this problem on their > computers > and have received no reports from other Jaws users with my problem. FS > had > me completely uninstall Jaws 14 and do a clean reinstall but that did not > eliminate the problem. they also checked all my Jaws 14 settings and they > seem to be working properly. > > Microsoft support says it must be a Fs issue since my Outlook 2007 > installation looks fine to them. They checked all my settings for Outlook > 2007 and nothing they did eliminated the problem. I also ran the Office > diagnostic from the Outlook 2007 help menu and it found no problems with > my > Outlook 2007 program. > > So I am wondering what could be happening on my system to cause this to > happen. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Greg Washington > > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
