Adding Desktop Shortcuts Under Windows 10
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss

Tom,

Find the location of the actual programme on your computer (not the shortcut), and see if that runs

Will probably be installed in c:\program files or c:\program files (x86)

If you examine the file properties of the short-cut (alt-enter on the shortcut) it will tell you where the programme location  and executable filename is.

If you use the “run” command you should just be able to type in that name and if the programme doesn’t run still – you know the problem isn’t with the shortcut.

Cathyanne:

Unfortunately, that did not work for me.

In other words, I got the same results;  the shortcut shows up on the desktop, but nothing happens when I highlight it and press enter on it.

If you or any others have more suggestions, I’ll give them a try.

Tom Behler

Good morning:

When downloading a file with a browser, how can you get the screen reader to read the percentage of the file being downloaded?

Thak you.

Good morning:
When downloading a file with a browser, how can you get the screen reader to read the percentage of the file being downloaded?
Thak you.

I have never got stuck setting up an ehco device useing the IOS app. It has even got easier than ever.

I had know problem setting mine up. The speaker will give you a network setting from Amazon. You need to open that connection, then change it there to your network name. It will be numbers, but can’t remember the numbers off hand. This must be done from the computer.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gudrun Brunot
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 5:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Tim: There are several ways in which to get stuck while you set up an Echo Dot. the best way, I have found, is to call Amazon’s disability line: (888) 283-1678. That got me through no problem, Nd I’ve set up two with their assistance.

 

Gudrun

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tim Ford
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:58 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Hello Listers,

 

I just received an early Christmas present from a dear friend, an Echo Dot.  I know this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I am hoping someone has instructions so I can set it up?  Also, any set of commands I can perform after setup.  Thanks!

 

Tim Ford

open the game then press insert plus space then s to toggle speech to on demand. this will silence Jaws during the game. they have changed this since I used it last and I think it will  talk if you do a jaws specific key combo. In the past it just silenced Jaws totally

Jerry hathaway wrote:

I use to have jaws turned off when I was playing games from kitchen games, but updating jaws this setting is no longer working. Can somebody please let me know how to have this setting work again to have jaws turn off when I am playing games that have their own sounds attached to them. Thank you for your help with this inquary.

Jerry

 

I use to have jaws turned off when I was playing games from kitchen games, but updating jaws this setting is no longer working. Can somebody please let me know how to have this setting work again to have jaws turn off when I am playing games that have their own sounds attached to them. Thank you for your help with this inquary.

Jerry

 

Cathyanne:

 

Unfortunately, that did not work for me.

 

In other words, I got the same results;  the shortcut shows up on the desktop, but nothing happens when I highlight it and press enter on it.

 

If you or any others have more suggestions, I’ll give them a try.

 

Tom Behler

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of CathyAnne Murtha
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 10:33 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io; jfw list <jfw@groups.io>
Subject: Re: Having Trouble With Desktop Shortcut For Newly-Installed Program

 

You are creating a shortcut to a shortcut.

 

Follow your steps through number 3.

 

Copy the shortcut, CTRL-C.

 

Focus on the Desktop, WINDOWS KEY-D.

 

Paste the shortcut, CTRL-V.

 

That should fix your issue.

 

CathyAnne

 

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:28 PM -0700, "Tom Behler" <tombehler@...> wrote:

Hello, everyone.

 

I’m trying to put a shortcut on the desktop for a new program I’ve just installed onto my Windows 10 PC, but can’t get the shortcut to work.  The shortcut appears on the desktop, but when I hit enter on it, nothing happens.

 

What am I missing?

 

Here are the instructions I used to create the desktop shortcut:

 

1. Press the windows key and search for the program.
2. When you find the program, do not press  enter, press the context key or shift F10.
3. Press enter on the open fie location option. The cursor is in the location of the executable file.
4. Press the context key or shift F10 again on the file.
5. Arrow to the send to submenu. Shortcut N.
6. Select the desktop create shortcut from this submenu, short cut D.
7. Check the desktop for the new shortcut.

 

 

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Tom Behler

 

 

I had know problem setting mine up. The speaker will give you a network setting from Amazon. You need to open that connection, then change it there to your network name. It will be numbers, but can’t remember the numbers off hand. This must be done from the computer.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gudrun Brunot
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 5:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Tim: There are several ways in which to get stuck while you set up an Echo Dot. the best way, I have found, is to call Amazon’s disability line: (888) 283-1678. That got me through no problem, Nd I’ve set up two with their assistance.

 

Gudrun

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tim Ford
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:58 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Hello Listers,

 

I just received an early Christmas present from a dear friend, an Echo Dot.  I know this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I am hoping someone has instructions so I can set it up?  Also, any set of commands I can perform after setup.  Thanks!

 

Tim Ford

I had know problem setting mine up. The speaker will give you a network setting from Amazon. You need to open that connection, then change it there to your network name. It will be numbers, but can’t remember the numbers off hand. This must be done from the computer.

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gudrun Brunot
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 5:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Tim: There are several ways in which to get stuck while you set up an Echo Dot. the best way, I have found, is to call Amazon’s disability line: (888) 283-1678. That got me through no problem, Nd I’ve set up two with their assistance.

 

Gudrun

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tim Ford
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:58 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Accessibility of Amazon Echo Dot?

 

Hello Listers,

 

I just received an early Christmas present from a dear friend, an Echo Dot.  I know this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I am hoping someone has instructions so I can set it up?  Also, any set of commands I can perform after setup.  Thanks!

 

Tim Ford

Klaus: Sorry, but I may be responding way too late for this to be of use to you, but here goes:

 

I understand where you’re coming from, and I have my own method for maintaining my favorites as a navigable folder structure on my desktop—‘cause that’s precisely where I want them and nowhere else if I can help it:

 

Say I find something with Chrome, and I want it in my trusty old favorites structure. I hit alt-d to go to the address bar. Control-c to copy. Now, I fire up my little old, out-of-date Internet Explorer. Most of the times, it will still open. I hit control-o to open. Paste in my URL; hit enter. Again, more often than not, The website opens. I don’t care if it opens sluggishly, as long as it opens. Now, I use the same old IE command to add to favorites. There you go. Yes, it’s cumbersome, but I just can’t get to feeling at home in that Chrome favorites management deal. My default browser is, for the time being, Google Chrome, and that’s how the URL will open. It’s just that I have my comfortable structure with logically organized links in folders, or in second-level subfolders under first-level parent folders. It’s part of my organizational file system, and it’s so established that I just want to keep it that way, no matter how crazy it may seem.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Gudrun

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Klaus Vielhauer
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 1:00 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Edge browser and favorites

 

Hello Brian,

 

tried the approach via the favorites manager - still quite cumbersome.

It seems to me that longterm maintaining the IE favorites file on the desktop is much more efficient:

I will still save the favorite in the Edge Browser with Control + d

Additionally however - and this is certainly more work

1. Go with control + l and copy the web address of the page in Edce

2. Open the IE favorites on the desktop

3. create new shortcut with the application menue.

After this I have the convienience of handling all subsequent accesses with keyboard searches etc from the desktop file.

Klaus

 

On 7/6/2020 4:58 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

Now that NVDA is reinstalled, I find that I can't use first letter navigation in Favorites manager.  It's much faster to use the search feature to limit what shows up in the right side pane.  

It's very, very much like file explorer in layout, and if you know what you're looking for a couple of characters in the search box tends to really cut down on what's available in the actual favorites list in the right pane.

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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss

Tim: There are several ways in which to get stuck while you set up an Echo Dot. the best way, I have found, is to call Amazon’s disability line: (888) 283-1678. That got me through no problem, Nd I’ve set up two with their assistance.

Hello Listers,

I just received an early Christmas present from a dear friend, an Echo Dot.  I know this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I am hoping someone has instructions so I can set it up?  Also, any set of commands I can perform after setup.  Thanks!

Tim Ford

Hello Brian,

tried the approach via the favorites manager - still quite cumbersome.

It seems to me that longterm maintaining the IE favorites file on the desktop is much more efficient:

I will still save the favorite in the Edge Browser with Control + d

Additionally however - and this is certainly more work

1. Go with control + l and copy the web address of the page in Edce

2. Open the IE favorites on the desktop

3. create new shortcut with the application menue.

After this I have the convienience of handling all subsequent accesses with keyboard searches etc from the desktop file.

Klaus

Now that NVDA is reinstalled, I find that I can't use first letter navigation in Favorites manager.  It's much faster to use the search feature to limit what shows up in the right side pane.  

It's very, very much like file explorer in layout, and if you know what you're looking for a couple of characters in the search box tends to really cut down on what's available in the actual favorites list in the right pane.

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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
       ~ Lawrence Krauss

Cathyanne:

Unfortunately, that did not work for me.

In other words, I got the same results;  the shortcut shows up on the desktop, but nothing happens when I highlight it and press enter on it.

If you or any others have more suggestions, I’ll give them a try.

Tom Behler