On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:54 pm, Londa Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: Also, if you're upgrading from Windows 7, run the tool on the Freedom Scientific website that removes old versions of JAWS. This will remove the mirror drivers. These are not needed in Windows 8.1 or 10, and they will actually cause problems in win 10.
Londa, Thanks very much for this info. I have not upgraded any JAWS users I work with to Windows 10, and would be really hesitant to do so with anyone on Windows 7 in particular. I had no idea these issues existed. When Windows 8 came out it was, as far as I am concerned, a tectonic shift in the Windows user interface. A great many of the things that had "gone autopilot" decades ago for long-time Windows users disappeared and the learning curve was significant and sometimes painful. While Windows 10 brings back a number of things, most notably the Start Menu, that Windows 8 did away with the switch to the tile-based start menu is still a big difference. It's also a grand PITA to put shortcuts on your desktop compared to Win7 and earlier (or at least via the method I'd always used). Brian
