Re: help with vmware

2013-11-07 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi all, anyone who can tell me if using fusion 5 under mavericks is a go, or not? thanks sandi On 8/16/13, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: what i like about fusion is actually that i can have the mac do its thing in windows, totally secured from the rest of the computers files.

Re: help with vmware

2013-11-07 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, Using it here with no problems. JMT though. Matthew On Nov 7, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, anyone who can tell me if using fusion 5 under mavericks is a go, or not? thanks sandi On 8/16/13, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-16 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I like Key Remap for Macbook. It allows me to use caps lock as the VO key in OS X, and the JAWS key in Windows in Fusion. The one down side to this is that you lose caps lock functionality, but I can live with that. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-16 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
what i like about fusion is actually that i can have the mac do its thing in windows, totally secured from the rest of the computers files. Sure we can scan books and all that under osx, but i have never ever found a way to make my book-scanner work as i wanted it under native osx. my next project

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-13 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi all, so after buying a full version key for fusion, how do i go about changing it ? thanks sandi On 8/12/13, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: personally i would never use jaws, the reason for that is it is too costly, so what i do is to fire up the vm and use nvda and the book

RE: help with vmware

2013-08-13 Thread wayne17a
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandi Jazmin Kruse Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 6:19 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: help with vmware hi all, so after buying a full version key for fusion, how do i go about changing it ? thanks sandi On 8/12/13, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-12 Thread Phil Halton
I set fusion to remap grave accent key to insert and undid the Sharpkeys remap from within windows. All went well until I discovered that using the insert as the jaws modifier key with a laptop keyboard caused some conflicts with existing jaws shortcut keys. The first conflict I found was the

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-12 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
personally i would never use jaws, the reason for that is it is too costly, so what i do is to fire up the vm and use nvda and the book scanner from in there:) and it works beautifully. As for hacking the windows registry, that is usually quite easy, at least it was last i had to do that, was a

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-11 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. I haven't needed the grave or accent key yet. I can still use it on the mac side but don't really need it there either. Cheers Maria sent from mac mini email, fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com skype bubbygirl1972 twitter same as skype without the numbers. On 10/08/2013, at 7:28 AM,

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
i ended up using windoex xp proff in the mac pro, and after a bit of surprises i was free to go. My eyes could see a heck of text flying over the screen but, that was all really. But after end installation and changed key bindings it all runs as i would expect. thanks for all the help so far

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead,

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences. Kawal. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
nice! :) On 8/9/13, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences.

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-09 Thread Phil Halton
Kawal, I have two VM's running win7 with JAWS and have them set to use the SharpKeys solution where sharpKeys swaps the capslock and the grave accent functions from within windows. I just set one of my VM's to do it the other way mentioned here using fusion keymapping to set the grave accent key

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-08 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Turn Voice over off, press windows key u if you've configured the keys either with Sharp keys or preferences under fusion mouse and keyboard if Window key being the command key on the left of the spacebar is not a windows key already. It should be if Fusion has been set up correctly. Narrator

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-08 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
i doubt that will start it, but i can imagine that would be cmd +r, since it is a windows xp installation :) sandi On 8/8/13, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Turn Voice over off, press windows key u if you've configured the keys either with Sharp keys or preferences under fusion mouse

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-08 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
To start Narator is command u, as in Windows 7 to start Narator is windows key U. If you want to run it then windows r type Narator. On 8 Aug 2013, at 03:12 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: i doubt that will start it, but i can imagine that would be cmd +r, since it is a

Re: help with vmware

2013-08-08 Thread Angus Mackinnon
Installed Sharp Keys 3.5 and then went into VMWare 5 Pro and launched Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I can do Command U for the Utilities Menu and not Option(ALT) N for Narrator. I do not get passed Suspend, Snapshots, Devices and Enter Unity to get to the login box that I have not set up yet.

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
solely because of the whole reboot requirement. - Original Message - From: Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Help with VMWare Fusion Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening the normal menubar with vo plus m, m for menu as a mnemonic. Then, vo arrow right until you find the item called virtual machines. Hit vo space to open this

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Les Kriegler
Paul, this is very helpful. My question here is if you re-assign the Command key to function as an Alt key, how would you switch between the Mac OS and Windows? Thanks. Les On Apr 21, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread anouk radix
Dear Les, He explained this in his message if you read through it. you can disable fusion sending keys to the mac when windows is turned on. Greetings, Anouk, Op 21/04/2013 17:06, Les Kriegler schreef: Paul, this is very helpful. My question here is if you re-assign the Command key to

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Les Kriegler
I actually did read the entire message. I'll read it again. On Apr 21, 2013, at 11:21 AM, anouk radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Les, He explained this in his message if you read through it. you can disable fusion sending keys to the mac when windows is turned on. Greetings, Anouk,

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Phil Halton
paul.erk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Help with VMWare Fusion Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening the normal menubar with vo

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-21 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
: Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Help with VMWare Fusion Hi Yolanda and Phil, Let's not make this more complicated than it is. 1. After having started fusion, you can start windows by opening

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

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Re: help with vmware fusion 3

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Courtney, The way to do this depends on whether you want your VM running full screen or not. I generally like mine to do so. WHat you want to do is start the VM and click the mouse once, in the apparently empty window, to move focus to the full screen area. After this, you can just

Re: help with vmware fusion 3

2011-07-21 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, One more question, how do I do a mouse click? Courtney On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Courtney, The way to do this depends on whether you want your VM running full screen or not. I generally like mine to do so. WHat you want to do is start the VM and click the

Re: help with vmware fusion 3

2011-07-21 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Courtney, Either with vo-shift-space or the physical mouse or trackpad. It doesn't matter which in this instance. Best, Zack. On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, One more question, how do I do a mouse click? Courtney On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:

Re: help with vmware fusion 3

2011-07-21 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I got it working, thanks for all of your help. Courtney On Jul 21, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Courtney, Either with vo-shift-space or the physical mouse or trackpad. It doesn't matter which in this instance. Best, Zack. On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Courtney Curran