RE: Raul's 8 JFW Tutorials

2017-09-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Thanks for posting the Dropbox link. Got it. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit

Re: Raul's 8 JFW Tutorials

2017-09-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Lloyd Thanks! If no one addresses this question with a solution on the list, I'd appreciate your asking Raul about the transcript versions of his 8 tutorials. They were outstanding, simple and straightforward. I'd love having all of them as a reference.

Raul's 8 JFW Tutorials

2017-09-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Are these still available -- particularly the transcript versions? Thought I had them all saved -- but apparently not. I receive an error msg when attempting to retrieve them from the old BW website thought the listings still appear there. Appreciate any help or guidance with this. Thanks!

Re: Taking the Plunge: Installing JFW18

2017-07-31 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Thanks to all for the support and info. All went well with the install and insertion and acceptance of the key. And, has been mentioned, the 2 programs talked together without a hitch; but, of course, I have disabled WE upon start-up on the pc I will be ;using for learning JFW. Politics is

Taking the Plunge: Installing JFW18

2017-07-29 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I am ready to do my first install of JFW18 on a test pc which now has the latest and last version of WE. I realize that both screen readers cannot be run simultaneously, but it's ok to have both WE and JFW installed as long as only one is talking. Am I correct on that? Secondly, I believe that

Re: windows 7 help needed

2017-06-05 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I do both these ideas: also, sometimes a letter that is seldom, if ever used, can do the same trick. As an example, on my desktop, Winamp has the letter x. >From this day forward, it's going to be only America First, America First. President Donald Trump, Inaugural Address, 1/20/17 On Sun, 4

JFW Home vs Professional

2017-06-03 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I need some clarification on this. I understand that the software is exactly the same as one is using the same files. So, for paying the $80 extra or so per each SMA, what does one receive -- extra keys, et al? Even though I am a home user using screen readers strictly for personal use, I

Where to find JFW Scripts

2017-06-01 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I realize that over the years probably thousands of scripts have been written for JFW. VFO, however, maintains no central repository where these scripts can be uploaded. How does one discover what is available for free or for cost? Does someone maintain some sort of central catalogue; and will

RE: Tutorial Question

2017-05-29 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Ditto to your comments. That'swhat "free enterprise" is all about. NO one is forcing anyone to buy anything; and if you think you can do it better, go ahead and try. The more resources available the better. c Long live free enterprise, capitalism, and the traditional American way. >From

Re: Winamp Equalizer and the Winamp Script

2017-02-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Ok, here are the equalizer freqs for both ISO and Winamp: ISO Standard Equalizer frequency table: 31.5, 63, 125, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000 Winamp EQ frequency table: 70, 180, 320, 600, 1000, 3000, 6000, 12000, 14000, 16000 The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge; the

Re: Winamp Equalizer and the Winamp Script

2017-02-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Two others questions come to mind. (1) Does anyone know or can direct me to a source which tells us the center frequency of each of the 10 eq bands? (2) Do the values given, when setting the eq (8.8, 9.6, et al) have any meaning or they are just relative numbers to each other? Thanks!

Re: Winamp Equalizer and the Winamp Script

2017-02-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Larry and Evan Thanks a whole bunch for your guidance. I appreciate also the mention of the presets as I was not aware of them, and the test toggle you mentioned Evan. My learning curve is over; now it's the testing and the presets should shorten that time. The Bible was not given to

Winamp Equalizer and the Winamp Script

2017-02-23 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I am using ver 5.66 of Winamp and have the latest WE script/app for the program as downloaded from APPCentral. I open the equalizer using alt+g but, for the life of me, cannot figure out at how to get at the 10 bands or adjust them, say nothing for eventually saving the settings. I suspect

Re: Window-Eyes is Dead!

2017-01-29 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Nick That's exactly Peter's point -- and both of you have said it in different ways with the same meaning. Effectively, future development of WE is no more. Granted, the PR side of it could have been handled better; but that's a completely different issue. The question I have is this: the

Editing a SetFile's User Windows

2017-01-28 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I have been using a particular non-factory set file for as many years as I can remember. It works fine with WE954 except I need to redefine windows alt1-alt9 for one of my pcs. For the life of me, I cannot remember how to do this? Can anyone get me started with this or point me to a resource

Re: action by DOJ

2016-06-16 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Kim Great from hearing from someone who has a legal background on this. And, taking this a step further, let's say the DOJ actually filed an action to stop the merger. That would cost VFO major dollars to defend which they likely don't have. So, the deal falls through and (probably) AISquared

RE: betrayal

2016-06-15 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Karyn That's a good example of YUM. And YUM itself is a spin-off of Pepsico (pep) which, over the years, had bought up Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, et al. So what you have is a bunch of initially independent fast food chains which end up being bought up and placed

RE: VFO acquisition of Ai Squared

2016-06-15 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Karyn I doubt that anti-trust can come into play in this situation. For one thing, there is no barrier to entry into the screen reader/equipment market other than it makes little economic sense for anyone to do so given the economy and the disincentives for entrepreneurship. The other,

Start-up Chime

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Where is the toggle for this? Looked through various settings and didn't stumble upon it. Thought it might be either under start-up setting or core functions, et al -- but no such luck. Thanks! Oh, give thanks to the Lord!  Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples! - Psalm

Re: Start-up Chime

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Mike Thanks for the lead. Unfortunately, the app doesn't provide that one sound I am looking for. Personally, I find what this app does more annoying than beneficial -- to each his own, I guess, and hopefully some find it useful. I am a bit surprised -- and thought I had toggled, at some

RE: Start-up Chime

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
s+cgrabowski=aisquared....@lists.window-eyes.com] On > Behalf Of Mike Pietruk via Talk > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 7:51 AM > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Subject: Start-up Chime > > Where is the toggle for this? Looked through vari

Re: Back To Windows 7 Pro

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
well, MSFT has indicated that WIN7 will be supported until at least sometime in 2020. I wouldn't worry too much about WIN7 going away until they first officially discontinue dropping support for VVista. And, while official support hyas vanished for xp, there are still millions of pcs out there

Re: Back To Windows 7 Pro

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
2020 is a minimum cut off date. Remember how many times the death certificate on XP had to be extended due to marketplace considerations. 4 yrs+ is a lifetime in the pc world; who knows what folks will want then -- say nothing even a yr or 2 now. Oh, give thanks to the Lord!  Call upon His

RE: how to prevent internet exploreer from saving anything

2015-11-12 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
This also works in Firefox. Note that a script in APCentral, that for searching Blind Bargains, conflicts with the command so you may have to activate private browsing by first hitting the WE by-pass key. A mark of true thankfulness is that we love the giver more than the gifts. Frans

Keeping Firefox Happy and Running

2015-11-12 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I use Ie as my primary browser but also have Firefox on my system for use in specific situations. Firefox, to its credit I suppose, is so concerned about system security that it insists on updated add-ons and plug-ins. Is there some program, utility, or app that can monitor this and

Re: Introducing Virtual View 5.0

2015-11-05 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Where is the print screen key on the keyboard? I've heard of it, cannot find it and don't recall ever having used it until this app came out. Sounds very exciting. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and

Table Numbering

2015-11-03 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
In the Pre-9 WE days, WE spoke a number for each table on a web page -- Table 1, Table 2, table 3, etc or perhaps Table 1.1, table 1.2, and so on. This changed with the 9 series, and I am not sure if this coding has been taken out of the software or some setting needs to be tweeked. In looking

Re: Deactivating navigating by specific browse elements

2015-10-29 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
t; I think what you want is the next and previous control hot keys. They're under > Hot keys, Browse mode. In the default layout they are F and Shift-F. They will > move you to the next or previous edit box, combo-box, button, etc. > > Hth, > Tom > > > On 10/28/2015

Deactivating navigating by specific browse elements

2015-10-28 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I believe that in ver 8.0 or so, GWMICRO introduced the ability to navigate by specific field elements rather than using a "c" regardless of which element one wanted to find. This, of course, made things simpler to find an edit box, combo box, et al. I also remember that there was a way to

Internet Security Packages and WE

2015-07-11 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
What is the current thinking of which internet security software package provides both good protection as well as working well with WE? Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks! Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. -- C

RE: Transferring We Settings to another PC

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Rod That's why I ask the question. There have to be key files in doing this as that's where the settings reside. I have certain defined hotkeys, pagemarkers, settings which might take me hours not only to reconstruct but also to figure where some of those settings and hotkeys are defined. In

WE and Eset Smart Security

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I just ran a virus scan using ESET. It found, say 25 threats, and indicated it cleaned 6 of them. I saw no choice in how to deal with the remaiing 19 such as to immediately delete them, quarantine them, whatever. Is this a WE issue, or am I missing something here. Thanks for guidance on this.

Re: WE and Eset Smart Security

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
:49 pm, Mike Pietruk via Talk talk@lists.window-eyes.com wrote: I just ran a virus scan using ESET. It found, say 25 threats, and indicated it cleaned 6 of them. I saw no choice in how to deal with the remaiing 19 such as to immediately delete them, quarantine them, whatever. Is this a WE

RE: WE and Eset Smart Security

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
lSteve (and all) My sighted adult son is somewhat the computer geek. Following my experience, he decided to take a pc that he wanted to clean up and ran ESET on it. It found 200+ problems in a 2 or so hour scan of the main hd and a secondary drive, cleaned nothing, and gave him no ability that

Re: WE and Eset Smart Security

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Elizabeth None of the flagged items are WE related. It seems, both in my and my son's experience today, Eset flagged ole bunch of stuff without offering an option to deal with it. Cleaning less than 10% of what it found is hardly reassuring and so I think looking elsewhere may make sense.

Re: unsubscribe

2015-02-26 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Speaking of attempting to unsubscribe, I went to the suggested link, asked for a password to be emailed on a couple of occasions, with nothing coming back. The humble Christian is far happier in a cottage than the wicked in a palace. Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952), Scottish author and teacher

Re: which version of windows should I get

2015-02-26 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Brendon What are you basing your belief that support for win7 has ended. It will continue, according to Microsoft, until at least 2020. And it is always possible that it may go beyond that date. Many manufacturers and pc builders are offering Win7 as an option and are likely to continue doing

Re: which version of windows should I get

2015-02-26 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Thanks for the explanation and clarification. And, regardless of the official support position, folks continue happily and productively using versions of Windows prior to 7. So, Bud, if he is comfortable with 7, can expect many good years of use. And, if he later decides to upgrade to a

RE: What is the directory for the set files

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
Rod Let me pose a follow-up question to that of Shannon as I am trying to do something similar to what Shannon is needing to do. I have a WE8.4 set up that I would like to place on a laptop. My ideal we8.4 configuration is that of which I have on an old xp desktop which, thanks to

RE: computer talking when it shouldn't

2015-02-18 Thread Mike Pietruk via Talk
I have seen this occur in all versions of WE. You've already received some good explanations. Some new info comes to your pc; and it is spoken. I have had this occur with a new internet wifi connection popping up at a neighboring location; and even a screen refresh. I've failed over and