Kevin, Oh, there is no problem at all if you just stay with Windows 7. The upgrade always contains the mirror driver when being installed under Windows Vista and Windows 7 and the accessibility driver when being installed under Windows 8.x and Windows 10. It just figures out your environment and installs the correct one. The issue is only when you upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 because the driver itself never got switched from mirror to accessibility. But since all Window-Eyes upgrade installers have everything, this is why I suggested just running it after going to 10 as it will realize you are in 10 and install the accessibility driver.
Doug On 7/27/2015 4:02 PM, Kevin Huber wrote: > Hi Doug: > > Thanks for pointing out the problem with the mirror drivers in Windows 7. > Now suppose I have Windows 7 and want to stay with it, but I have > downloaded Windows 9.2. > How will the lack of a mirror driver affect me? Will there be any > applications which will become unusable for me? > Kevin Huber > > > On 7/27/15, Doug Geoffray via Talk <[email protected]> wrote: >> Don, >> >> There are four scenarios when it comes to Windows 10 and Window-Eyes. >> Let me address each. >> >> 1) You get a new computer and it already has Windows 10 installed >> >> You must have the full Window-Eyes 9.2 installer. Windows 10 will block >> the installation of any version less than 9.2. >> >> 2) You manually install Windows 10 on a system >> >> Windows 10 is no different than any other operating system at this >> point. Window-Eyes itself can not be installed until Windows 10 itself >> is fully installed so you would need to use Windows Narrator to help you >> with the Windows 10 installation. Windows Narrator can be launched with >> Windows-Enter. >> >> 3) You are upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 >> >> You must have Window-Eyes 9.2 installed on your Windows 7 system before >> the Windows 10 upgrade will allow you to continue. I have not seen the >> final Windows 10 upgrade which will start being pushed out on Wednesday >> so I can't say specifically what will happen but on the internal builds >> I've been testing I've seen the following. I had Windows 9.2 installed >> and running on my Windows 7 system when I started the Windows 10 >> upgrade. Everything was working well and speaking perfectly. However, >> there are eventually two back to back screens which have Window-Eyes >> unloaded and require you to launch Narrator. After those two screens >> the upgrade will continue and Window-Eyes will eventually launch and be >> working under Windows 10. >> >> However, under Windows 7 only there is a problem with the Window-Eyes >> accessibility driver. The issue is Windows 7 requires a mirror driver >> which Window-Eyes has. But after the upgrade, Windows 10 does not >> support mirror drivers so it blocks them leaving Window-Eyes without the >> driver causing there to be no off screen model. In most cases you don't >> even need an off screen model but it is still important to resolve >> this. The easiest way to resolve this is to simply run your Window-Eyes >> 9.2 upgrade on itself under Windows 10. So after Window 10 has been >> installed just download your Window-Eyes 9.2 upgrade and run it. This >> will install the necessary accessibility driver causing you to have a >> full 9.2 working copy under Windows 10. >> >> 4) You are upgrading from Windows 8.x to Windows 10 >> >> You must have Window-eyes 9.2 installed on your Windows 8 system before >> the Windows 10 upgrade will allow you to continue. Like Windows 7 there >> are a couple screens that come up without Window-Eyes running so you >> will need Narrator. After that Window-Eyes will come up and your >> Windows 10 will be running perfectly with Window-Eyes 9.2. There is >> nothing extra you need to do. Windows 8 and Windows 10 both use an >> accessibility driver, not a mirror driver, so life is good after the >> upgrade. >> >> Regarding how Microsoft is going to upgrading a billion devices to >> Windows 10, there is an interesting blog post you may find interesting: >> >> http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/02/windows-10-preparing-to-upgrade-one-billion-devices/ >> >> Regards, >> Doug >> >> On 7/27/2015 10:44 AM, Don H via Talk wrote: >>> When Windows 10 becomes available can it be installed without sighted >>> help? 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