Gezim: You should ask your friend what they did to solve the problem just in case it happens again. Dave

Marty: What you did to solve your problem, would have been the steps I was going to suggest you do. Dave

And for 98% of people even your computer is over-spect. As Brian pointed out, most users get buy with something quite basic and therre is little reason why most people should spend more than $800 or $

my post the very first response to this question was to do exactly what is friend did. go to diss manager look for the drive and assign a drive letter, initialize or format as needed. That's what was

Hi, Albert, It was a command applicable to earlier versions of JAWS, not earlier versions of Windows. FreedomScientific changed the command to resolve a conflict with a new command in Windows. Bill Wh

I guess that my earlier suggestion regarding the windows C command was for earlier versions of windows. It doesn’t seemed to be mentioned in the training manual that comes with Jaws.

Gezim, That’s great that your new external hard disk is now being recognized and working as expected. Considering the wealth of responses that were provided to your post, it would be nice if in the fu

Hello all, I feel obliged to inform you that a sighted friend of mine fixed the issue for me, I think by doing something under Disk Management. I sincerely thank you all for all your efforts to help m

I might be wrong, but I think this feature had already been introduced in earlier windows 10 builds, since 1803 if I am not wrong. Cheers!

Hi. The clipboard on windows 10 is now equipped with a clipboard history. Press Windows key+V, and you will be able to select the most recent entries on your clipboard. Arrow down or up to the text yo

Good point. I have found that once you move the arrow key, the file is selected, but when you open a folder, that first file is not always selected, so I use the steps I outlined, but yah, sure, yah-b

Richard, Once you move to the first file it's already selected, so pressing the spacebar will dee-select it. But, as you arrow throught the list you do need to keep the control key held down and tap t

- Possibly, or it's possible that Windows Update applied a BIOS update (that's possible now) and the BIOS update itself reverts the function keys to media keys/smart keys/whatever your manufacturer ca

I have an acer, and I never heard or come across such an issue, and I wouldn’t have thaught an windows update would change any bios settings in itself Maybe the cmos battery is at fault here, rather t

Hi, Cristóbal. You don't need to copy a blank line to the clipboard to clear it. Just use CONTROL plus C the first time you want to copy something to the clipboard, and Windows will ask you if you wan

Hello, I am using jaws 2019 with outlook 2019 and I want to mark mail-messages with different marckers. A google-account is set up in outlook with google workspace and if I mark a gmail with a star (*

OK, with files there is a trick to this. Arrow to the first file you want to copy and press and hold the control key, and tap the spacebar without releasing the control key. Then, while holding down t

I am usually talking about files.

I have an Acer running Windows 10 and the latest version of JAWS. The last 2 Windows updates have changed my function keys back to their original settings. This means I have to add the function key to

Marianne, Are you talking about files or text? It would be helpful to know. Thanks, Richard "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Rus