Hello Tom,
Thanks very much for your help. Will try that soon.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kingston via Talk
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:53 PM
To: peter Chin via Talk
Cc: Tom Kingston
Subject: Re: Apps that can be uninstalled
Peter,
Open the Window-Eyes control panel.
Alt-F File.
E Explore profile folder.
Once in the folder backspace to step back one level.
Control-A to select all. This will include the default folder and the
users.ini file.
Control-C to copy.
Move to wherever you want to save it and Control-V to paste.
Hth,
Tom
On 9/14/2017 7:03 AM, peter Chin via Talk wrote:
Hello All,
Please remind me how to save my WE profile.
Thank you.
-----Original Message----- From: David via Talk
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 9:06 AM
To: WE English Mailinglist
Cc: David
Subject: Apps that can be uninstalled
Just wanted to remind you, that not all apps developed for WinEyes, are
beneficial any longer.
Though an app in general should simply just close down, once it cannot
perform its activity, you might eventually see some apps that could
cause you issues. I recently went through my installed apps, and among
them found a couple of apps that clearly never will be of any more usage.
WE Diag.
This app was designed to generate a diagnostic report, that could be
sent to the GW team, for troubleshooting.
Since there is no more team to receive the diagnostics report, there
will never be any usage of generating such a report.
The app further does consume at least one hotkey, which rather could be
used for your convenience with other apps and features, or third-party
software on your computer.
WEUpdate.
This app will check for updates to Window-Eyes itself.
There NEVER will be any updates, or new versions. The app will attempt
to connect to the GW servers, every time you start your screen reader,
and who knows how much more frequently. It will generally not pose any
problem to you, since it simply will receive the message from the
server, that no new updates are to be found, and then close itself down.
Yet, as the servers of WinEyes might not stay up forever, who knows what
error messages it will generate in the coming.
The app is to be viewed as useless, obsolete, and might as well be
removed.
Though apps might not take up any extensive space on your computer, and
might pose no current trouble in running, I do not generally suggest you
let useless or obsolete software run on your system. It is not likely
that any of the WE apps might pose real risks in lingering on your
computer, but really, why leave them there - all the time they never
will kick into any benefit for you. Even, someone might eventually hack
the code, and misuse the door you leave open.
How To Uninstall.
Open the WE Control Panel, by hitting Ctrl-Backslash.
Press Alt-A, to go to the App menu.
Choose App Management.
Scroll down to Add/Remove Apps, and hit Enter.
In the list of installed apps, scroll to the unwanted app, and then tab
over to Remove, and hit Enter.
Shift-Tab back to the list, and repeat the remove process for any app
you do not want any longer.
First you are at it, make sure to get rid of apps that are known to be
troublesome, like the Jaws Emulating app.
When done, exit, and make a copy of your working WinEyes Profile, saving
it on a memory stick or the like. It will come in handy, should you ever
want or need to reinstall your screen reader.
There might be other apps, which you would no longer benefit from.If
anyone feels there are apps that I have overlooked, and which never will
be operational again, maybe you want to share with the list members.
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