Hi Brian,

It’s actually one extra step. Go to the start menu and press up arrow to “all 
apps”. Press enter and find the program you want. Right click or press the 
applications key. Go down to “open file location”. You will be in the programs 
folder sitting on the program you want. Press the applications key again and go 
to “send to”. Press enter and then go down to “desktop create shortcut”. I’ve 
gotten to the point that it only takes me an extra second or two to do this. 
Hope this helps. 

 

From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 4:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How To Get Rid Of Get Windows 10 Message

 

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



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