What Was Result Of Mailed In Laptop Test

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi: One person having problems mailed in his, her, laptop to AI Squared for analysis and a fix. What were the problems being encounterd and the results of the analysis and the fix if any? This was a big hassle for the person involved and warrents a response me thinks. We all cant pack up our

Rod: Sleep Mode Situation

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi Rod: First I have to figure out what to turn off and how: here is the first article i read on the related subject: It was for Windows 7 but gives a good overview of 3 states that may need to be addressed I guess: I think, I run a Desktop machine, I may have to turn off Hybrid sleep from the

RE: What Was Result Of Mailed In Laptop Test

2015-10-01 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Hi Rick, It was the file explorer sluggishness issue in Windows 10. It wasn't a Window-eyes issue, it was a Microsoft issue. Microsoft has addressed the file explorer issue in the later insider preview builds and the overall responsiveness was vastly improved. Once it goes to the general

Final Message? RE: Sleep Mode Situation

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
OK Rod: I set both the combo box settings to never so never hibernate and never sleep I guess. Not what I really want in case I want the machine to power save if I end up away from it for a lengthly period but if it allows me to not lose speech I guess worth the trade-off. If it does not work I

Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Mike via Talk
Hello Everyone recently, I had an RNIB tech volunteer at my home. He kept commenting that Windows Explorer was stopping. This seemed to coincide with speech loss. He mentioned this four or five times in half an hour and was extremely surprised to see it happening so frequently. I have

RE: What Was Result Of Mailed In Laptop Test

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Thanks Chris: OK, good enough. Not a speech problem but a Microsoft performance issue and, If I remember, addressed in Windows 10. Now that is something concrete to hang our hats on. Congrats to the AI team who figured that puppy out! Thanks again for the answer. Rick USA -Original

Re: What Was Result Of Mailed In Laptop Test

2015-10-01 Thread Don H via Talk
I did indeed send in my laptop to Ai Squared and Doug spent the better part of a week working on it. There was no fix found at the time but as already stated it was actually a Microsoft issue causing the sluggishness. I have since installed the windows insider build 547 and the sluggishness

RE: Sleep Mode Situation

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi Rod: Wish I was done but I found the hybrid optiion someplace in a list of dialogs and list views and tree views via the control panel. The option is in a TreeView and tabbing around when the arrow key was over it showed nothing to set or unset. It may be a check box leaf item but WindowEyes

RE: Sleep Mode Situation

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi Again Rod: Below article indicates that when the computer goes into sleep or hibernate mode, still fuzzy on all this, that ram can be lost - sounds like something that could cause the problems described in prior posts after a sleep session. Think of WE loading something into ram memory, the

RE: What Was Result Of Mailed In Laptop Test

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Indeed: You sending in your machine and them working out the problem was a good effort on both parties part. I like it when a plan comes together. My philosophy is your fault, my fault, nobodys fault just get the job done and done right. Rick USA -Original Message- From: Talk

Free Training Webinar: Accessing Facebook.com with Window-Eyes - October 22, 2015

2015-10-01 Thread Marc Solomon via Talk
Facebook.com is the world's most popular social media site. People all over the world visit Facebook.com to stay in touch with family and friends, connect with people that share similar interests and to keep up to date with current events, politics, music, technology and more. Facebook has made

CCrane Posting this week read fine

2015-10-01 Thread gosselin_louis via Talk
This week CCrane is offering their new catalog. Traditionally this weekly posting from Ccrane cause loss of speech with Win-Eyes 9.2 and Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. I usually have to resort to converting it to an .mht file, then reading it. Earlier this week I discovered that Outlook Enhance was

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Lynn White via Talk
I have no doubt that it is a Windows Explorer issue. With Windows 10, it doesn't seem to happen as much. On 10/1/2015 8:27 AM, Mike via Talk wrote: Hello Everyone recently, I had an RNIB tech volunteer at my home. He kept commenting that Windows Explorer was stopping. This seemed to

RE: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
What type of computers are being used, Dell, HP, etc? Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread net bat via Talk
i built mine myself. with a gigabyte i 5 quad core with 8gb of memory, useing the on board audio and the video is the c p u itself. i always lose speech when i open the bookmark list in firefox 38 esr? i have to turn off autoload and browse mode first then it will still talk. if i do not

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Singing Sparrow via Talk
I have this happen with lenovo, and acer computers processors range from AMD to intell On 10/1/2015 11:13 AM, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote: What type of computers are being used, Dell, HP, etc? Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Brice Mijares via Talk
Lenovo and HP - Original Message - From: "Chris Grabowski via Talk" To: "Lynn White" ; "Window-Eyes Discussion List" ; "Mike" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:13 AM Subject:

RE: Word 2007 Question

2015-10-01 Thread Smith, Veronica via Talk
I will try that. V -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+veronica.smith=aps@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rod Hutton via Talk Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 9:19 PM To: 'Veronica Smith'; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Word 2007 Question Hi

RE: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Smith, Veronica via Talk
Mine is a Lenova Laptop -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+veronica.smith=aps@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Chris Grabowski via Talk Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:13 AM To: Lynn White; Window-Eyes Discussion List; Mike Subject: RE: Losing speech What type

RE: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi Chris; I have a Dell Optiplex 8 gig ram i7 intel processor. I lose speech a few times a day and especially if I am switching between applications too fast and try to navigate before I hear WindowEyes responding. That said, sometimes it just goes dead. I just turned off sleep mode since that can

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Loy via Talk
I just had an instance where I lost speech and IE 11 stopped when I was on the Chase.com web site, making an online payment.I had to log off and when I started up IE again, it said that my last session had unexpectedly stopped and did I want to start it again. I got no WE error. So, I think in

RE: the on going saga of losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Smith, Veronica via Talk
Mine is Firefox and word. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+veronica.smith=aps@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rod Hutton via Talk Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 9:07 PM To: dlh...@centurylink.net; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: the on going saga

RE: Final Message? RE: Sleep Mode Situation

2015-10-01 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi Rick, I'm running Windows 10, and I also have two combo boxes, the first being how many minutes before the display is turned off, set to ten minutes by default, and can be left alone. The second combo box is the number of minutes before the computer goes to sleep and that was set to thirty

Re: window-eyes running in demonstration mode

2015-10-01 Thread Pamela Dominguez via Talk
And I have also never heard of a demo mode that only ran for five minutes. That is not long enough to get a demo of anything! Pam. -Original Message- From: Joe Paton via Talk Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:19 AM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: window-eyes running in

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread tchild via Talk
I'm using a Del with windows 8.1 and WE 9.2 -Original Message- From: Singing Sparrow via Talk Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 11:15 AM To: Chris Grabowski ; Window-Eyes Discussion List ; Lynn White ; Mike Subject: Re: Losing speech I have this happen with lenovo, and acer computers

RE: losing speech--last Monday of month--early morning

2015-10-01 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi Gayle, Control-Alt-W won't reload WE 8.4, since that hot key will only relaunch WE in versions later than 8.4. With WE 8.4, you must use Control-Insert-F4, which then pops up a prompt with the default button of Ok, requiring you to then press Enter to close WE. At that point, Control-Alt-W

RE: Not hearing stars when I enter Passwords and Some Other Keys

2015-10-01 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi Evan, In the WE control panel, arrow down to Verbosity, expand this, arrow down to Common, expand this, and, finally, arrow down to Miscellaneous. Then, press F6, and tab to the setting called "Speak the word star in password edit boxes." Note that you must set the Scope to Global and the next

losing speech--last Monday of month--early morning

2015-10-01 Thread Gayle via Talk
Hi, I'm giving you more information. I have an HP desktop computer, Windows Vista and WE 8.4. I have a problem with losing speech on the last Monday of the month in the early morning at around 4:00 a.m. central standard/daylight saving time. Sometimes control, alt,w doesn't work to restore

Not hearing stars when I enter Passwords and Some Other Keys

2015-10-01 Thread Evan Reese via Talk
Hey Guys, I'm using WE 8.4 on Windows 64-bit with IE11. Something's happened to my WE 8.4 settings somehow. Now, when I enter passwords, I don't hear anything; I used to hear star star and so on. Also, I no longer hear certain keys when they're pressed such as caps lock and num lock. I used to

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread manny via Talk
Hi Chris, I have encountered losing speech with the following: Dell xps 420 windows 7, windows 8.1, and windows10 intel q6600 quad core Toshiba Satellite windows 7 intel dual core 8gb ram hp HP ENVY QUAD 15T-J100 NOTEBOOKwindows 7 intel i7 with 2gb nvidia graphics memory and 8 gb ram

Re: Losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread via Talk
Hello Chris, using an older HP 7700, with 6 GB of RAM, Win 7 Pro, and WE 9.2 Deul Core 3.4 Intel CPU. on board Video and Sound. Dave -- Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the

Re: Greyhound bus lines website.

2015-10-01 Thread Nick Sarames via Talk
Can you include a link? I could "Google" it but I want to make sure we're on the same site. On 9/30/2015 11:03 PM, Reeva Webb via Talk wrote: I need to buy a bus ticket. I can't figure out the greyhound website. I really don't want to pay the extra it cost to book on the phone. I've tried

Re: Not hearing stars when I enter Passwords and Some Other Keys

2015-10-01 Thread Nick Sarames via Talk
A general question; I have not been able to find verbosity when I arrow down after pressing control-backslash. Devices (7 of 7)is as far as I can arrow. What am I doing wrong? On 10/1/2015 7:46 PM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote: Hi Evan, In the WE control panel, arrow down to Verbosity, expand

RE: Not hearing stars when I enter Passwords and Some Other Keys

2015-10-01 Thread Charles Short via Talk
Go to advanced options, go to verbosity, expand it and do whatever it is you want to do. If you don't want to hear star when entering the password field, go to miscellaneous. Charlie Best Regards Charlie Short -Original Message- From: Talk

Re: Not hearing stars when I enter Passwords and Some Other Keys

2015-10-01 Thread net bat via Talk
open the w e control panel then go to the help pull down and check turn on advanced mode then all 13 menus will show. -Original Message- From: Nick Sarames via Talk Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 5:35 PM To: Rod Hutton ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Not hearing stars

RE: Sudden Loss Of Speech

2015-10-01 Thread via Talk
They're for AVG,. Bob. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+fenderwal=sbcglobal@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Robert Ringwald via Talk Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 4:31 PM To: Chris Grabowski; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Sudden Loss Of Speech

RE: the on going saga of losing speech

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi Dave: Yup, having an idea of how the sausage is made gives you a better insight into what may be going on indeed. I too have sat through meetings both hot and snoozy and found the same things. It is likely, in AI Squareds case, they want to fix the problem but it is either too deeply embedded

Re: Greyhound bus lines website.

2015-10-01 Thread bob jutzi via Talk
Did you explain your inability to use the site? They should wave that fee. On 10/1/2015 3:12 AM, Nick Sarames via Talk wrote: Can you include a link? I could "Google" it but I want to make sure we're on the same site. On 9/30/2015 11:03 PM, Reeva Webb via Talk wrote: I need to buy a bus

Re: office 2016

2015-10-01 Thread bob jutzi via Talk
On 9/30/2015 4:00 PM, bob jutzi wrote: I have Office 365. Other than One Drive integration, what advantages do the newer versions of Office have over 2010, if any? I am considering re-installing 2010 since Omnipage 18 doesn't support Direct OCR from within Word 2013. On 9/30/2015 12:18 PM,

RE: Loss of speech, consistent pattern

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi: I just got up and my machine was asleep over night. I quickly logged in and went to the internet, google via internet Explorer. No speech with tabbing nor the arrow keys but some with the mouse so the sound card was still active. I closed IE and went back to the desktop and it read ok. Tried

RE: w e 9.2 became corrupted

2015-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi and Sorry Tom: I don’t remember but detailed it a few months ago. What I remember is that it started with some things automatically happening in both web pages and in one of my own computer windows programs I had created. I did some experimenting to try and narrow the problem and found one of