Re: [JAWS-Users] Lenovo and jaws
Hi. On my Think Pad t480s, and I believe that all of the modern think pads are similar so this may be useful to you, home to the right of 12, end is to the right of home, insert is to the right of end, and then delete is in the top right next to insert. page up and page down are located to the left and right of the up arrow respectively. note also that you can get home and end with fn and left or right arrow, which given their relational position to the page up and page down makes good sense. fn up and down arrow don't give you page up or page down though, which, as page up and page down are already pretty close to there, doesn't really pose an issue. To be honest, it's a really odd layout, I prefer the vertical six pack going down the right end of the keyboard at least on systems with no num pad. Also, if you have a print screen button between right alt and right control, you can remap that to the context menu. You may be able to do it with the lenovo settings app in control panel or just use sharp keys, it's a free download and you can get a portable copy of sharp keys, no need to install it or anything. lastly, if your fn and control keys are backwards, e.g. fn is in bottom left and control is to the right of that, and you would prefer to swap it around to be more consistent with other windows laptops, you can do that in lenovo vantage under hardware settings and input. You can also do that in lenovo settings in control panel. Hope this helps. Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com; On 6/14/2018 3:52 PM, David Whitehead wrote: Good afternoon folks, just a follow up on my Lenovo message, I just found out that my client has a, Lenovo ThinkPad E570 I just did a quick search, I'm wondering if the following is accurate. also, could someone tell me, where the home, end, pageup, pagedown, and delete keys is? I would really appreciate this. FN + ESC + Switch the key function between the standard F1-F12 function and the special function printed as an icon on each key. When the Fn Lock indicator is off, you can use the default function. You can change the default function in the Keyboard Properties window. F1: Mute or unmute the speakers. When the speakers are muted, the indicator on the key is on. If you mute the sound and turn off your computer, the sound will remain muted when you turn on your computer. To turn on the sound, press F2 or F3. F2: Decrease the speaker volume. F3: Increase the speaker volume. F4: Mute or unmute the microphones. When the microphones are muted, the indicator on the key is on. F5: Darken the computer (LCD) display. F6: Brighten the computer (LCD) display. F7: Manage external displays to enable clone or extended desktop. F8: Enable or disable the built-in wireless features. F9: Multifunction depending on installed operating system: - Windows 7: Open Control Panel. - Windows 10: Open the Settings window. F10: For Windows 10, enable or disable the built-in Bluetooth features. F11: Open a keyboard setting page. F12: For Windows 10, the key invokes the function defined by yourself. If no function is defined, press this key to open the Cortana personal assistant. To define or change the action for the F12 key, do the following: list of 3 items 1. Open the Lenovo Settings program. 2. Click the input icon. 3. Locate the KEYBOARD: USER-DEFINED KEY section and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the setting. list end The impossible is the untried, Never under estimate the power of a dream. 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Lenovo and jaws
Hi. I forgot to answer your other question. The keyboard shortcut list you posted below is completely consistent with my T480s, so likely as they're both Think Pads it's good for your e500 what ever you said it is. Also, I noticed a reference to f11 opening a keyboard control thing. I tried that here and it opened Lenovo Vantage on the input section, which is where you go if you want to swap your fn and control keys or toggle what the function keys do by default and such. Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com; On 6/14/2018 3:52 PM, David Whitehead wrote: Good afternoon folks, just a follow up on my Lenovo message, I just found out that my client has a, Lenovo ThinkPad E570 I just did a quick search, I'm wondering if the following is accurate. also, could someone tell me, where the home, end, pageup, pagedown, and delete keys is? I would really appreciate this. FN + ESC + Switch the key function between the standard F1-F12 function and the special function printed as an icon on each key. When the Fn Lock indicator is off, you can use the default function. You can change the default function in the Keyboard Properties window. F1: Mute or unmute the speakers. When the speakers are muted, the indicator on the key is on. If you mute the sound and turn off your computer, the sound will remain muted when you turn on your computer. To turn on the sound, press F2 or F3. F2: Decrease the speaker volume. F3: Increase the speaker volume. F4: Mute or unmute the microphones. When the microphones are muted, the indicator on the key is on. F5: Darken the computer (LCD) display. F6: Brighten the computer (LCD) display. F7: Manage external displays to enable clone or extended desktop. F8: Enable or disable the built-in wireless features. F9: Multifunction depending on installed operating system: - Windows 7: Open Control Panel. - Windows 10: Open the Settings window. F10: For Windows 10, enable or disable the built-in Bluetooth features. F11: Open a keyboard setting page. F12: For Windows 10, the key invokes the function defined by yourself. If no function is defined, press this key to open the Cortana personal assistant. To define or change the action for the F12 key, do the following: list of 3 items 1. Open the Lenovo Settings program. 2. Click the input icon. 3. Locate the KEYBOARD: USER-DEFINED KEY section and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the setting. list end The impossible is the untried, Never under estimate the power of a dream. 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Laptop crashing
Hi. Do you know exactly which version of JAWS you were running? It might be possible that you were running the one that had a nice bug where it always used 100 percent of which ever cpu thread it was executing on all of the time. It was 17 point something, if you know what it was we can maybe figure out if that was the one. In any case, if that's what was going on, I think it might be possible that your battery wasn't providing enough power to execute that fast and the board undervoltaged. this usually should happen when the battery is very low, and never on a fairly new battery a year or newer, but older batteries that may not be putting out as many volts as they should could be not providing enough watts for the system to extend power to all components when the cpu wants more than a certain amount. You probably would know your computer now runs cooler than it used to, it should be very obvious if that's a possible explanation. To clerify something, it actually turns off, just pressing power starts it in the boot up process? Another possibility could be that you put the laptop on your lap in a certain way or you fidget (no offense intended here) in some way that's exposing a short somewhere that your brother didn't duplicate. My Lenovo yoga 2 pro used to take out my WiFi network not just for itself, but for everybody, if I picked it up by squeezing the right edge in one hand. I had to get used to holding it with two hands or laying it across an arm or what ever. So saying, that actually isn't out of the realm of possibility. To answer your last question, no, this has never happened to me. Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com; On 6/12/2018 11:53 AM, Sharon S wrote: Hi all, I have a acer laptop running windows 10 and Jaws 2018. I have been having an issue where my computer will turn completely off with no warning when running on battery. When I restart the laptop the battery level is always pretty high so it isn't a battery issue. I took note of when this was happening so my brother could look at the logs and see what is happening. Well as far as he could see there was no reason for it. Then my brother played with my laptop for awhile without Jaws on and the laptop didn't shut down. He gave it back to me and I turned Jaws on and one minute later it had turned off. So this led us to think it was something to do with Jaws but I couldn't see why that was causing this. I had an upgrade I hadn't done on my Jaws so I did that and I haven't had the laptop shut down on me since. I'm hoping it is totally fixed but does anyone know why this would have been happening? Has it happened to anyone else? Thanks. From Shaz. 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/
[JAWS-Users] dropbox sign in
Hello all, Wondering if I'm totally lost or has the dropbox sign in changed completely. It looks nothing like it did the last time I signed in. Any hints on how to sign in? Gary For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] saying menu bar
Hello list, I have a program that brings up different articles of text. On some of them Jaws will say menu bar several times in a row. Is there a way to stop Jaws from saying that forever?>? Thanks for any help. , Dave For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
