Your welcome.
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From: Pablo Morales
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Installing Windows 10 Tips
It is very helpful
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From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of jim
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 7:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Installing Windows 10 Tips
As far as your start menu.
Make sure you go to the setting, called:
cortana and search setting, turn off cortana, turn off show search results
from bing.
This can be frustrating at first when you are setting up your w-10 computer.
Now, when pressing the windows key or pressing enter on the start button.
type what you are looking for, down arrow through the results.
It will now be just like windows 7.
You can play with cortana and bing results later.
Also, set your default programs.
Turn off most of the background apps which will slow down your computer.
Go to choose how I receive updates on this computer, under windows updates.
turn off, by unchecking receive and send updates to other computers, this
will slow down your computer as well.
If you need step by step instructions on customizing your w-10 computer.
See my recording, customizing w-10 with Jaws, on my one drive link below.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=109032A085BB3CE2!130&authkey=!AOrgD5LmQr72KPA&ithint=folder%2ctxt
I hope this helps...
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From: Scorpio Forever
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 11:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Installing Windows 10 Tips
Hi Folks,
I have successfully installed Windows 10 on my 7 year old desktop computer
running Windows 7 and Jaws 16. While there are still bugs with this newest
version of Windows, especially for us Jaws users, such as the inability to
access the Start Menu search results, or the inability to access individual
updates in order to deselect them from installation, the overall speed of my
decrepit desktop has improved quite noticeably.
The lag is much less then it was on Windows 7, and no, I have no idea
whether Windows 8, or 8.1 would have helped that or not, but I can happily
say that Windows 10 is much faster on my desktop computer, then Windows 7
was.
In terms of hardware issues, I did not have any problems, even though I was
assured of this fact from the Windows 10 upgrade utility, so that wasn’t as
much a concern for me, especially when I remembered that I had a really old
sound card from Creative Labs installed on there that was giving my old
Windows 7 system a problem, and I even thought that that same sound card
might have been the culprit in my inability to install Windows 10. As it
is, I need not have worried, as Windows 10 by-passed that issue with no
qualms whatsoever.
There are some tips I can offer that will help the installation, and if you’re
experiencing the issue I was having, with the upgrade stalling and/or
discontinuing in the middle, you may want to pay attention.
First, disable any malware or anti-virus that has real-time protection on
your computer, and by disable, I don’t mean turn it off temporarily, I mean
disable it from start up in the MS Config utility. This can be accomplished
by pressing the Windows key+R to bring up the run dialog box, then typing
msconfig in the edit box, and pressing enter.
In the resulting dialog box, control+tab to the services tab, and uncheck
the boxes that apply to your anti-virus or malware blocker applications.
Once done, control+tab over to the start-up tab, and again, uncheck any
boxes having to do with those applications, then tab to the apply button,
then shift+tab over to the ok button.
You may be prompted to re-start your computer, and if you are, go ahead and
do so, but if you’re not, simply re-start your computer.
Secondly, you may want to disable anything having to do with online
services, such as Dropbox, iCloud services, Send Space Wizard, and
non-essential services, such as Printer monitoring services and One Drive.
While I can’t guarantee that these applications will give you problems, and
I don’t have any confirmation as to whether these were the causes of my
predicament, during the Windows 10 installation, you won’t need these
services anyway, so it doesn’t hurt to disable them.
Now, you don’t have to disable them using the MS Config utility, simply
doing so from the task manager with control+shift+escape, just before you
begin the installation process is enough. Now, the reason I told you to
disable the anti-virus and anti-Malware applications through the MS Config
utility, and not the online services is because your computer, or, at least,
the Windows 10 installation wizard claims that your computer will re-start
many times, and so if you simply use the application’s settings, the
disabling will only take effect until you re-start your computer, and I
would suggest you keep the services disabled until the installation has been
completed.
As I said, I have no guarantee that these tips are absolutely necessary, as
you’ve seen by other’s experiences, not everyone has suffered what I have
suffered, and they’ve actually been successful in installing their Windows 7
to 10 upgrade. I am simply outlining what I did to ensure that my upgrade
process when flawlessly and as smoothly as possible.
Also, those of you using Jaws should know that I had sighted assistance, and
so when the Windows log on and set up screen popped up, I was advised of
this event. If you don’t have sighted assistance, then you will have to
guess as to when this happens.
I have no actual technical guidelines as to when this event takes place, but
I can extrapolate that when you no longer hear any noises from your hard
drive, assuming you aren’t running a solid state drive, this should be the
ideal time to toggle Narrator on with a press of the Windows key+enter. You’ll
enjoy the richer sounding voice that pops up.
That keystroke is a toggle, so when you want to shut narrator down again,
you simply have to press Windows key+enter again, or caps lock+escape to
shut down Narrator.
Again, some people may or may not have Jaws popping up when Windows logs on
to the desktop, I can’t categorically state this will happen, but
surprisingly, mine did, but I took the safe precaution, as Freedom
Scientific suggested, of running the Windows 10 upgrade utility available on
their website, then re-installing the latest build of Jaws 16. In my case,
I uninstalled Jaws, while leaving shared component, and re-installed Jaws.
Once that was done, I had Jaws popping up with my original settings. Oh,
and you may have to re-configure the Jaws start-up setting, as for some
reason, the automatically start Jaws at the log on screen and Windows
desktop log on got disabled.
I also wish Freedom Scientific would fix their installer to make Jaws
automatically start once it’s installed on a new system, and not make us
re-start the system to a computer with no speech. Make things much easier,
but alas, this is not the forum to run my mouth off. LOL.
In any case, I hope this helps anyone having the same issues I was having,
and apologize for any errors made in my explanations, or steps/tips. I am
not explaining how to do it correctly, I am simply explaining what I did to
ensure a successful upgrade to Windows 10, following my inability to upgrade
using the standard Windows 10 upgrade utility found in the system tray.
I should also mention that I also used the Windows media creation utility to
download the Windows installation ISO file, which I extracted onto an
external hard drive, and ran the setup from the setup.exe file in the
folder, at which point I was given the option to upgrade to Windows 10 now.
I did, and am loving Windows 10, and it’s speed and performance.
I am posting this message to several lists, so I apologize to anyone if I
sound patronizing, as some lists have members who are experienced, and
others have members who are not, So, I chose to place more information than
necessary because it’s better to have too much and not need it, than have
too little information and need it. In other words, I didn’t want to have
to explain myself over and over again, thereby creating more traffic to the
list.
In any case, if anyone has any questions or comments, feel free to contact
me off-list at:
[email protected]
Or, if the moderators approve, on-list, and since I am the moderator of one
of the lists, permission is given and encouraged.
So, off to enjoy my copy of Windows 10.
Hope this helps.
Scorpio
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