Hi, having screen curtain turned on would preserve at least some battery, since not having to power the backlight of a display would reduce some battery consumption. This is why low power mode when ac

Hi Ashleigh, No, its nothing like that at all, the main reason for wanting the display constantly off is that on a laptop one of the biggest drains on the battery is the display, since I don’t use it

Hi everyone, thanks everyone for your replies. It’s a shame it doesn’t seem like there is a built in feature/setting to turn it on permanently. Still the ability to turn of the display is still a hand

Hi Shan, how NVDA get round this with their equivalent feature (screen curtain), is that it doesn't turn on the screen curtain feature until the desktop has fully loaded , that way if there are any is

Hi everyone, I recently discovered Jaws has a screen shade function which turns off the display of your PC. It seems to be a temporary option however, as every time I restart my PC I have to reenable

Hi, As an alternative key combination to obtain word count, you can press ALT R then W. This works in word 2016, not sure about other versions. Paul Lemm

Hi, I personally use Vipre, I can’t pass on exact statistics on how well it performs in benchmark tests, but I’ve personally used it for many years and kept a clean system. I find a lot of anti-virus

Hi, I use OBS for recording play throughs of my game engine. If you don’t want to use any of the fancy features it’s really straight forward to use. simply install the program, there’s no special set

Hi everyone, Thanks everyone for all the advise and suggestions, I've passed them all onto my friend who also says a big thanks for all the help. Kind regards Paul

Hi Kendra, Thanks for the reply. he is using office 365. I didn’t realise there was a web version and desktop version though and I’ve asked him to let me know if he knows whether it’s the web or deskt

Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. I use office 2019 myself, so I’m not to up to date on how office 360 works. You mentioned in your reply though that the first one windows downloaded didn’t work well, w

Hi Debby, Thanks for the reply, it’s definitely not a document in protected mode. He has an office 365 subscription, but I’m unsure if he’s using the web version or desktop. I’ve asked him to check an

Hi Everyone, Asking on behalf of a friend, He has just brought a new PC (windows 10 home edition), he is using Jaws 2020 and office 360. When he tries to move around the spreadsheet in excel nothing i

Hi, You can as someone mentioned upgrade to the drop box paid account, which if you use a lot of storage is really worthwhile as I think they give 2TB of storage space. If you just want to increase yo

Hi, As glen mentioned, place markers are really helpful for web based software like this. I've worked in various companies which use these types of systems for sales, bookings etc. when I first start

Hi Anne, I used Sales force in a previous job, only for a short while though. I think I remember it being a web browser based software. I didn't have any problems using it with jaws, it seemed to work

Cheers Mario and Don, I never knew about the alt F and O option, that’s a damn site quicker than my way hahaha. Thanks for the tips Paul

Hi Anne, The other day I restored windows afterwards when I opened file explorer , it opened to quick view , rather than this PC, to get it to open to this PC rather than quick view: first open file e

Hi Sharron, I actually found bookmarks the hardest transition when I first moved from IE to chrome, but now use chrome all the time and almost never use IE any more. One tip I can give regarding bookm

Hi Kevin, Thanks for the link, I’ll include that in the email I send the author. Paul