Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread Ken The PionEar
Well, as I said, I'm not fully knowlegeable on the OS, and there might be 
things I'm just not getting. Also, I'm using JFW 11, and I can neither 
afford nor am I willing to go for an upgrade.

My son's computer, which has Windows 7, uses NVDA.
Check out my games at
www.ThePionEar.net
and my music, and that of my band, at
www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on Facebook, 
(KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .

Crazy Ken
- Original Message - 
From: Jacob Kruger ja...@blindza.co.za

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge 
fordevelopers, post xp windows



Will just say, funny enough, a while ago had a relatively decent spec dell 
laptop that was initially running windows XP on, but when then upgraded it 
to windows7, it firstly booted up in around half the time, but, also 
actually responded better under windows7 - hardware compatibility?


Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

- Original Message - 
From: Ken The PionEar kenwdow...@me.com

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:57 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge for 
developers, post xp windows



I definitely don't have look and feel issues when it comes to Windows 7, 
since I like trying new things. It's purely an issue of response time for 
me. If I hit a key and it takes a brand spankin' new computer a quarter of 
a second for Jaws to respond, there is an issue. That same computer just a 
few months down the road is even worse. I've worked with both my wife's 
laptop and my son's desktop, both using windows 7, and I'm not impressed. 
I used to have Vista on my desktop, and other than a lot of buggy behavior 
it wasn't too bad, but it wasn't like XP. I didn't feel it was stable or 
responsive. One of its best features was its accessible games. I enjoyed 
playing Purble Place with my son.
Also, I can admit to some ignorance of how to optimize it for speed. I'm 
sure all the fancy animations and graphics were on, for example.
I can't say one way or another as regards to Windows 8 except that i'm 
itching to try it just to see what it's like.


Check out my games at
www.ThePionEar.net
and my music, and that of my band, at
www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on 
Facebook, (KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .

Crazy Ken
- Original Message - 
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows



Hi Dallas,

Agreed. It is sort of amusing because as you said Microsoft has stuck
with the XP look and feel for so long that users forgot what it was
like to go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 or from Windows 98 to XP.
Both offered major changes in the user interface and I don't remember
people screaming quite as loudly or as fanatically as they are over
Windows 7 and Windows8.

However, what I think they need is a point of comparison. As you
pointed out is that other operating systems haven't stood still or
been quite as static as Windows has been for the last ten or so years.
The Linux graphical desktop environments like Gnome have constantly
been updating and evolving little by little until we have something
completely different from what we had ten ore more years ago. Today
Gnome 3.8 is as different from Gnome 2.8 as Windows 8 is from XP, but
that change was gradual rather than over night. There was some
grumbling on the Orca list when Gnome whent from Gnome 2.32 to 3.0,
but those were mainly over access issues rather than the UI changes.

This might sound a bit harsh,but I think Windows users are a bit
spoiled by the fact Microsoft chose to keep their user interface as
long as they have. Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and pretty much
anybody who is anyone has been changing their user interfaces from
version to version and Microsoft just chose to hit their customers all
at once rather than ease them into it the way other software companies
have.

On 5/1/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com wrote:
It's kind of ironic. Apple in a lot of ways, invented what we now know 
as
windows. Microsoft actually use the ideas that apple used originally. 
Mind

you, Apple didn't invent it either really. They technically got it from
Xerox. LOL. So blame Xerox.
The interesting thing about this, is that people are complaining about 
how
different windows 8 is to Windows 7 and earlier. Because Microsoft 
didn't

change very much in Windows for so long, So the  change now has come as
somewhat of a shock to some people. Especially those that have been 
using

windows for some time.
Of course, Apple has been 

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread Jacob Kruger
Ok, reminds that it was either jaws 11, or jaws 12 that specifically needed 
to be used with windows7 to make it really viable as well - biggest issue 
there was that jaws would keep on seeing that you'd changed hardware, when 
you hadn't...smile


Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

- Original Message - 
From: Ken The PionEar kenwdow...@me.com

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge 
fordevelopers, post xp windows



Well, as I said, I'm not fully knowlegeable on the OS, and there might be 
things I'm just not getting. Also, I'm using JFW 11, and I can neither 
afford nor am I willing to go for an upgrade.

My son's computer, which has Windows 7, uses NVDA.
Check out my games at
www.ThePionEar.net
and my music, and that of my band, at
www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on Facebook, 
(KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .

Crazy Ken
- Original Message - 
From: Jacob Kruger ja...@blindza.co.za

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge 
fordevelopers, post xp windows



Will just say, funny enough, a while ago had a relatively decent spec 
dell laptop that was initially running windows XP on, but when then 
upgraded it to windows7, it firstly booted up in around half the time, 
but, also actually responded better under windows7 - hardware 
compatibility?


Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

- Original Message - 
From: Ken The PionEar kenwdow...@me.com

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:57 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge for 
developers, post xp windows



I definitely don't have look and feel issues when it comes to Windows 7, 
since I like trying new things. It's purely an issue of response time for 
me. If I hit a key and it takes a brand spankin' new computer a quarter 
of a second for Jaws to respond, there is an issue. That same computer 
just a few months down the road is even worse. I've worked with both my 
wife's laptop and my son's desktop, both using windows 7, and I'm not 
impressed. I used to have Vista on my desktop, and other than a lot of 
buggy behavior it wasn't too bad, but it wasn't like XP. I didn't feel it 
was stable or responsive. One of its best features was its accessible 
games. I enjoyed playing Purble Place with my son.
Also, I can admit to some ignorance of how to optimize it for speed. I'm 
sure all the fancy animations and graphics were on, for example.
I can't say one way or another as regards to Windows 8 except that i'm 
itching to try it just to see what it's like.


Check out my games at
www.ThePionEar.net
and my music, and that of my band, at
www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on 
Facebook, (KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .

Crazy Ken
- Original Message - 
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com

To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows



Hi Dallas,

Agreed. It is sort of amusing because as you said Microsoft has stuck
with the XP look and feel for so long that users forgot what it was
like to go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 or from Windows 98 to XP.
Both offered major changes in the user interface and I don't remember
people screaming quite as loudly or as fanatically as they are over
Windows 7 and Windows8.

However, what I think they need is a point of comparison. As you
pointed out is that other operating systems haven't stood still or
been quite as static as Windows has been for the last ten or so years.
The Linux graphical desktop environments like Gnome have constantly
been updating and evolving little by little until we have something
completely different from what we had ten ore more years ago. Today
Gnome 3.8 is as different from Gnome 2.8 as Windows 8 is from XP, but
that change was gradual rather than over night. There was some
grumbling on the Orca list when Gnome whent from Gnome 2.32 to 3.0,
but those were mainly over access issues rather than the UI changes.

This might sound a bit harsh,but I think Windows users are a bit
spoiled by the fact Microsoft chose to keep their user interface as
long as they have. Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and pretty much
anybody who is anyone has been changing their user interfaces from
version to version and Microsoft just chose to hit their customers all
at once rather than ease them into it the way other software companies
have.

On 5/1/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com 

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread Dallas O'Brien
Hi. This is only one reason why I switch to NVDA, because of the fact that I 
could not upgrade from my old version of Jaws. It was simply getting worse and 
worse, with me on one version, and every six months to 12 months, a new version 
comes out with new abilities, and guess what! I can't use them.
This is why I gave up on Jaws, in terms of a home user Situation.
I can have versions of NVDA, as up-to-date, as yesterday's code.
LOL.
I understand however, that there are people that don't want to change, from 
Jaws, but Berin mind, that a lot of your Windows 7 problems, may in fact have 
been Jaws, not Windows 7.
Even when I change from windows XP, to Windows 7, I had a fact bought a 
completely new Windows 7 laptop, and put Jaws on it, and guess what. It ran 
slower. 
And mind you, the laptop I bought with Windows 7 on it, was our whole lot more 
powerful than my XP machine ever was. It had three times the RAM, and at least 
two times the processor power. But as soon as I got rid of Jaws, and used NVDA 
completely, it ran as fast, as three of my old XP machines put together. LOL.
Personally, I think that if Freedom scientific stripped jaws down, and 
redesigned it for more modern systems, much like Microsoft has done with 
windows 8 and it's background code, I'd guess that Jaws would be a whole lot 
better, and more responsive. I think a lot of the problem with Jaws, is that it 
hasn't been stripped down, and a lot of code has simply built up with buggy 
versions, on top of buggy versions. So now you have too much that's 
conflicting, and causing problems. Much like windows used to do. But now that 
Microsoft has redesigned windows 8 from the ground up, and stripped out a lot 
of old code, and rubbish that was no longer needed, it runs like a dream.

Regards:
Dallas


On 02/05/2013, at 16:29, Ken The PionEar kenwdow...@me.com wrote:

 Well, as I said, I'm not fully knowlegeable on the OS, and there might be 
 things I'm just not getting. Also, I'm using JFW 11, and I can neither afford 
 nor am I willing to go for an upgrade.
 My son's computer, which has Windows 7, uses NVDA.
 Check out my games at
 www.ThePionEar.net
 and my music, and that of my band, at
 www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
 If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on Facebook, 
 (KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .
 Crazy Ken
 - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger ja...@blindza.co.za
 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
 Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:20 AM
 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge 
 fordevelopers, post xp windows
 
 
 Will just say, funny enough, a while ago had a relatively decent spec dell 
 laptop that was initially running windows XP on, but when then upgraded it 
 to windows7, it firstly booted up in around half the time, but, also 
 actually responded better under windows7 - hardware compatibility?
 
 Stay well
 
 Jacob Kruger
 Blind Biker
 Skype: BlindZA
 '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
 
 - Original Message - From: Ken The PionEar kenwdow...@me.com
 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
 Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:57 AM
 Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge for 
 developers, post xp windows
 
 
 I definitely don't have look and feel issues when it comes to Windows 7, 
 since I like trying new things. It's purely an issue of response time for 
 me. If I hit a key and it takes a brand spankin' new computer a quarter of 
 a second for Jaws to respond, there is an issue. That same computer just a 
 few months down the road is even worse. I've worked with both my wife's 
 laptop and my son's desktop, both using windows 7, and I'm not impressed. I 
 used to have Vista on my desktop, and other than a lot of buggy behavior it 
 wasn't too bad, but it wasn't like XP. I didn't feel it was stable or 
 responsive. One of its best features was its accessible games. I enjoyed 
 playing Purble Place with my son.
 Also, I can admit to some ignorance of how to optimize it for speed. I'm 
 sure all the fancy animations and graphics were on, for example.
 I can't say one way or another as regards to Windows 8 except that i'm 
 itching to try it just to see what it's like.
 
 Check out my games at
 www.ThePionEar.net
 and my music, and that of my band, at
 www.ThePionEar.net/BlindLabyrinth.html .
 If you want to reach me, you can call 419-744-0517, friend me on Facebook, 
 (KenWDowney,) or write me at kenwdow...@me.com .
 Crazy Ken
 - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
 To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
 Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:04 PM
 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows
 
 
 Hi Dallas,
 
 Agreed. It is sort of amusing because as you said Microsoft has stuck
 with the XP look and feel for so long that users forgot what it was
 like to go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 or from Windows 98 to XP.

Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dallas,

Not only that but the way Jaws does things aren't exactly the best way
to handle them. Take for instance the way it handles keyboard
commands. Jaws sets a low-level keyboard hook that intercepts keyboard
events, taking it away from the application and the operating system,
filters them through Jaws and passes them back to the application or
OS if it finds its not a Jaws command. Its very slow and inefficient,
and I am certain this is a very big reason Jaws users find something
like Windows 7 seems unresponsive. The reason is they have this very
resource intensive TSR application called Jaws intercepting each and
every single keyboard command, filtering through Jaws, and that causes
a performance lag.

Now, NVDA has a totally different way of handling that issue. NVDA
simply polls the operating system and receives keyboard events the
same as any other application. As a result if you press control+o in
Notepad the command is immediately dispatched to Notepad rather than
being routed through your screen reader first, and I've noticed that
everything is more responsive using NVDA.

Plus as you pointed out Jaws now has a bunch of old garbage that has
probably been there since 1.0 that is no longer strictly necessary.
Jaws has video intercept drivers which considering UI Automation .for
WPF type applications really has no use under Windows 7/Windows 8 any
more. So that and plenty of other things need to be removed and the
screen reader really could use some house cleaning so to speak.

Cheers!

On 5/2/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi. This is only one reason why I switch to NVDA, because of the fact that I
 could not upgrade from my old version of Jaws. It was simply getting worse
 and worse, with me on one version, and every six months to 12 months, a new
 version comes out with new abilities, and guess what! I can't use them.
 This is why I gave up on Jaws, in terms of a home user Situation.
 I can have versions of NVDA, as up-to-date, as yesterday's code.
 LOL.
 I understand however, that there are people that don't want to change, from
 Jaws, but Berin mind, that a lot of your Windows 7 problems, may in fact
 have been Jaws, not Windows 7.
 Even when I change from windows XP, to Windows 7, I had a fact bought a
 completely new Windows 7 laptop, and put Jaws on it, and guess what. It ran
 slower.
 And mind you, the laptop I bought with Windows 7 on it, was our whole lot
 more powerful than my XP machine ever was. It had three times the RAM, and
 at least two times the processor power. But as soon as I got rid of Jaws,
 and used NVDA completely, it ran as fast, as three of my old XP machines put
 together. LOL.
 Personally, I think that if Freedom scientific stripped jaws down, and
 redesigned it for more modern systems, much like Microsoft has done with
 windows 8 and it's background code, I'd guess that Jaws would be a whole lot
 better, and more responsive. I think a lot of the problem with Jaws, is that
 it hasn't been stripped down, and a lot of code has simply built up with
 buggy versions, on top of buggy versions. So now you have too much that's
 conflicting, and causing problems. Much like windows used to do. But now
 that Microsoft has redesigned windows 8 from the ground up, and stripped out
 a lot of old code, and rubbish that was no longer needed, it runs like a
 dream.

 Regards:
 Dallas

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Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread Dallas O'Brien
Yes, exactly. Not the most efficient way to do things, and like you said, 
probably one of the reasons why jaws does not access Windows 7 or windows 8 as 
fast as it should.
But unfortunately, like Microsoft's own business model, jaws has not been 
stripped down and redesigned for too long. Thankfully, Microsoft decided to do 
so, in Windows 8.

Regards:
Dallas


On 03/05/2013, at 1:13, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Dallas,
 
 Not only that but the way Jaws does things aren't exactly the best way
 to handle them. Take for instance the way it handles keyboard
 commands. Jaws sets a low-level keyboard hook that intercepts keyboard
 events, taking it away from the application and the operating system,
 filters them through Jaws and passes them back to the application or
 OS if it finds its not a Jaws command. Its very slow and inefficient,
 and I am certain this is a very big reason Jaws users find something
 like Windows 7 seems unresponsive. The reason is they have this very
 resource intensive TSR application called Jaws intercepting each and
 every single keyboard command, filtering through Jaws, and that causes
 a performance lag.
 
 Now, NVDA has a totally different way of handling that issue. NVDA
 simply polls the operating system and receives keyboard events the
 same as any other application. As a result if you press control+o in
 Notepad the command is immediately dispatched to Notepad rather than
 being routed through your screen reader first, and I've noticed that
 everything is more responsive using NVDA.
 
 Plus as you pointed out Jaws now has a bunch of old garbage that has
 probably been there since 1.0 that is no longer strictly necessary.
 Jaws has video intercept drivers which considering UI Automation .for
 WPF type applications really has no use under Windows 7/Windows 8 any
 more. So that and plenty of other things need to be removed and the
 screen reader really could use some house cleaning so to speak.
 
 Cheers!
 
 On 5/2/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi. This is only one reason why I switch to NVDA, because of the fact that I
 could not upgrade from my old version of Jaws. It was simply getting worse
 and worse, with me on one version, and every six months to 12 months, a new
 version comes out with new abilities, and guess what! I can't use them.
 This is why I gave up on Jaws, in terms of a home user Situation.
 I can have versions of NVDA, as up-to-date, as yesterday's code.
 LOL.
 I understand however, that there are people that don't want to change, from
 Jaws, but Berin mind, that a lot of your Windows 7 problems, may in fact
 have been Jaws, not Windows 7.
 Even when I change from windows XP, to Windows 7, I had a fact bought a
 completely new Windows 7 laptop, and put Jaws on it, and guess what. It ran
 slower.
 And mind you, the laptop I bought with Windows 7 on it, was our whole lot
 more powerful than my XP machine ever was. It had three times the RAM, and
 at least two times the processor power. But as soon as I got rid of Jaws,
 and used NVDA completely, it ran as fast, as three of my old XP machines put
 together. LOL.
 Personally, I think that if Freedom scientific stripped jaws down, and
 redesigned it for more modern systems, much like Microsoft has done with
 windows 8 and it's background code, I'd guess that Jaws would be a whole lot
 better, and more responsive. I think a lot of the problem with Jaws, is that
 it hasn't been stripped down, and a lot of code has simply built up with
 buggy versions, on top of buggy versions. So now you have too much that's
 conflicting, and causing problems. Much like windows used to do. But now
 that Microsoft has redesigned windows 8 from the ground up, and stripped out
 a lot of old code, and rubbish that was no longer needed, it runs like a
 dream.
 
 Regards:
 Dallas
 
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Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Vista and 7: was Re: challenge fordevelopers, post xp windows

2013-05-02 Thread shaun everiss
well till I started using nvda I realised how much others dolphin, 
gwmicro jaws and the rest had relied on mostly their stuff and not 
what was there.
Bar a few external libraries and modules nvda gets most of its info 
from everything thats installed in the os.
Ok a few things that need intercepters and vertual mode don't work 
like smuglers 4 and 5 and maybe a few other apps but if its web based 
or has a link to ms controls it will attempt to read it.

99% of all apps work.
Even some custom controls it will attempt to read.
so you can use eudora 7 with it, not that well but you can.

At 03:13 AM 5/3/2013, you wrote:

Hi Dallas,

Not only that but the way Jaws does things aren't exactly the best way
to handle them. Take for instance the way it handles keyboard
commands. Jaws sets a low-level keyboard hook that intercepts keyboard
events, taking it away from the application and the operating system,
filters them through Jaws and passes them back to the application or
OS if it finds its not a Jaws command. Its very slow and inefficient,
and I am certain this is a very big reason Jaws users find something
like Windows 7 seems unresponsive. The reason is they have this very
resource intensive TSR application called Jaws intercepting each and
every single keyboard command, filtering through Jaws, and that causes
a performance lag.

Now, NVDA has a totally different way of handling that issue. NVDA
simply polls the operating system and receives keyboard events the
same as any other application. As a result if you press control+o in
Notepad the command is immediately dispatched to Notepad rather than
being routed through your screen reader first, and I've noticed that
everything is more responsive using NVDA.

Plus as you pointed out Jaws now has a bunch of old garbage that has
probably been there since 1.0 that is no longer strictly necessary.
Jaws has video intercept drivers which considering UI Automation .for
WPF type applications really has no use under Windows 7/Windows 8 any
more. So that and plenty of other things need to be removed and the
screen reader really could use some house cleaning so to speak.

Cheers!

On 5/2/13, Dallas O'Brien dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi. This is only one reason why I switch to NVDA, because of the 
fact that I

 could not upgrade from my old version of Jaws. It was simply getting worse
 and worse, with me on one version, and every six months to 12 months, a new
 version comes out with new abilities, and guess what! I can't use them.
 This is why I gave up on Jaws, in terms of a home user Situation.
 I can have versions of NVDA, as up-to-date, as yesterday's code.
 LOL.
 I understand however, that there are people that don't want to change, from
 Jaws, but Berin mind, that a lot of your Windows 7 problems, may in fact
 have been Jaws, not Windows 7.
 Even when I change from windows XP, to Windows 7, I had a fact bought a
 completely new Windows 7 laptop, and put Jaws on it, and guess what. It ran
 slower.
 And mind you, the laptop I bought with Windows 7 on it, was our whole lot
 more powerful than my XP machine ever was. It had three times the RAM, and
 at least two times the processor power. But as soon as I got rid of Jaws,
 and used NVDA completely, it ran as fast, as three of my old XP 
machines put

 together. LOL.
 Personally, I think that if Freedom scientific stripped jaws down, and
 redesigned it for more modern systems, much like Microsoft has done with
 windows 8 and it's background code, I'd guess that Jaws would be 
a whole lot
 better, and more responsive. I think a lot of the problem with 
Jaws, is that

 it hasn't been stripped down, and a lot of code has simply built up with
 buggy versions, on top of buggy versions. So now you have too much that's
 conflicting, and causing problems. Much like windows used to do. But now
 that Microsoft has redesigned windows 8 from the ground up, and 
stripped out

 a lot of old code, and rubbish that was no longer needed, it runs like a
 dream.

 Regards:
 Dallas

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