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About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh!
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Dave...
I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as
it's time for a new laptop. Do any of you feel it incumbent to stop me before I do something regretful? I do have the option of having my new laptop fitted with XP Pro, 32-bit. Henceforth my request for your sage advice, everyone. Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I care about readers of my mail. From my soon-to-not-be Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Lisa D Porter <lisaporter429@...>
Hi,
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I've been using 7 for almost a year and don't really notice many differences between it and Vista. I really like it aside from a few things I wish I could find out how to do. And, this is said from the lady that came into Windows from Unix kicking and screaming. LOL I think you'd be OK with 7 unless you use a lot of old programs that aren't compatible with it. I've only found one that I couldn't find a good replacement yet for. Good luck and email me privately if you need or want any help. Lisa D Porter lisaporter429@... On 7/15/2011 5:50 PM, Farfar on Laptop wrote:
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Don Wardlow <wardlows97@...>
XP Pro will be more familiar, if your job will let you use it instead.
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Some jobs, particularly work-at-home jobs, won't allow Windows 7 at all, so I'm surprised your job is suggesting you go that treacherous route. I don't love 7, XP was just fine. Don -----Original Message-----
From: Farfar on Laptop Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:50 PM To: JFW Mailing List Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as it's time for a new laptop. Do any of you feel it incumbent to stop me before I do something regretful? I do have the option of having my new laptop fitted with XP Pro, 32-bit. Henceforth my request for your sage advice, everyone. Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I care about readers of my mail. From my soon-to-not-be Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dave Scrimenti <dscrimenti@...>
There are advantages and disadvantages to both. I prefer XP, but mainly because I'm a big Total Recorder user, and XP lets me keep Jaws out of whatever I'm recording, and 7 does not. I'm also more use to XP, but they're not as different as you might think. I tried 7 for a couple weeks and had little trouble getting use to it. My main concern with XP is whether I'll be able to find drivers for newer hardware.Where are you getting this laptop? I can't find anyone offering XP on a new machine.
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From: "Farfar on Laptop" <dgcarlson@...> To: "JFW Mailing List" <jfw@...> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:50 PM Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as |
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James Homuth
The thing to be concerned about with XP isn't from an accessibility
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standpoint, but the fact Microsoft won't actually support it in 3 years, and there's no guarantee Freedom Scientific will either. So, you'd just be upgrading the OS at that time anyway. There's no real major obsticles to Windows 7 with JAWS, and most of the major programs, even a few older versions of those programs, will work on 7. Case in point, this reply is being written on a Windows 7 laptop running Office 2003 and JAWS 12. Your only problem is going to be older hardware, but since you're getting a new laptop anyway, I wouldn't much worry about that. James, List Admin -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti Sent: July-15-11 6:49 PM To: Farfar on Laptop; The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! There are advantages and disadvantages to both. I prefer XP, but mainly because I'm a big Total Recorder user, and XP lets me keep Jaws out of whatever I'm recording, and 7 does not. I'm also more use to XP, but they're not as different as you might think. I tried 7 for a couple weeks and had little trouble getting use to it. My main concern with XP is whether I'll be able to find drivers for newer hardware.Where are you getting this laptop? I can't find anyone offering XP on a new machine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Farfar on Laptop" <dgcarlson@...> To: "JFW Mailing List" <jfw@...> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:50 PM Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dorothy <dorothy.ingram-gorban@...>
well you better move to 7 64 bit I think, if you do not have vista,is a bit
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of a jump,but if windows 8 is maybe out next year,a friend thinks it will only be 64 bit and ,I prefer my old xp laptop but am writing this from windows 7 using jaws 12. xp will have little support by then Dorothy. yt -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar on Laptop Sent: 15 July 2011 22:51 To: JFW Mailing List Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as it's time for a new laptop. Do any of you feel it incumbent to stop me before I do something regretful? I do have the option of having my new laptop fitted with XP Pro, 32-bit. Henceforth my request for your sage advice, everyone. Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I care about readers of my mail. From my soon-to-not-be Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Drew Hunthausen
Dave,
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Since I switched to windows 7 about a year ago, I have had no regrets. I think it is much easier to navigate and find things with the new interface; though many things are very similar to XP. The only other advice I have is that if you use a Braille display not made by FS, you should get the 32 bit version of windows 7 to make sure the display works. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar on Laptop Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 2:51 PM To: JFW Mailing List Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as it's time for a new laptop. Do any of you feel it incumbent to stop me before I do something regretful? I do have the option of having my new laptop fitted with XP Pro, 32-bit. Henceforth my request for your sage advice, everyone. Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I care about readers of my mail. From my soon-to-not-be Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3766 - Release Date: 07/15/11 |
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Londa Peterson <lpeterson@...>
I've used Windows 7 on my notebook for about a year and a half. I love it
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and have no problems. I don't even have many of the problems others have said that they do. I am using the 64-bit version. I'm using IE9 with no trouble as well. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar on Laptop Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:51 PM To: JFW Mailing List Subject: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I may be soon migrating (disassociating?) to Windows 7 on my work machine as it's time for a new laptop. Do any of you feel it incumbent to stop me before I do something regretful? I do have the option of having my new laptop fitted with XP Pro, 32-bit. Henceforth my request for your sage advice, everyone. Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I care about readers of my mail. From my soon-to-not-be Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Karen Hughes <khughes8@...>
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From: "Londa Peterson" <lpeterson@...> To: "'Farfar on Laptop'" <dgcarlson@...>; "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:25 AM Subject: RE: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I've used Windows 7 on my notebook for about a year and a half. I love it |
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Dave...
Karen,
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Your message cut off with the letter "n". Did you intend to send more? Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I empathize with readers of my mail. From my Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Hughes" <khughes8@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 7:55 Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! n ----- Original Message ----- From: "Londa Peterson" <lpeterson@...> To: "'Farfar on Laptop'" <dgcarlson@...>; "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:25 AM Subject: RE: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I've used Windows 7 on my notebook for about a year and a half. I love it _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dorothy <dorothy.ingram-gorban@...>
Dave her letter did not cut off for me,she says she had no problems at all
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and has used it for a year,she encourages you dave Dorothy! -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar on Laptop Sent: 18 July 2011 17:23 To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! Karen, Your message cut off with the letter "n". Did you intend to send more? Dave Carlson Written with grammatical care, punctuation, and capitalization because I empathize with readers of my mail. From my Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Hughes" <khughes8@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 7:55 Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! n ----- Original Message ----- From: "Londa Peterson" <lpeterson@...> To: "'Farfar on Laptop'" <dgcarlson@...>; "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:25 AM Subject: RE: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! I've used Windows 7 on my notebook for about a year and a half. I love it _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dave Scrimenti <dscrimenti@...>
It cut off for me. Same place, just the letter n.
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From: "Dorothy" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 12:41 PM Subject: RE: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! Dave her letter did not cut off for me,she says she had no problems at all |
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Adrian Spratt
Dave,
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Dorothy is confusing Karen's obviously accidental posting with Londa's post. I suggest we all let this error go, as well as Karen's. Lots of people accidentally click reply to the list when they don't intend to post. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 2:10 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! It cut off for me. Same place, just the letter n. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy" <dorothy.ingram-gorban@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 12:41 PM Subject: RE: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! Dave her letter did not cut off for me,she says she had no problems at all _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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inthane <inthaneelf@...>
and don't forget that there are my helpful notes (loads of them) off my grab bag site: (address/link under my name)
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there are some audio training files on blind cool tech: www.blindcooltech.com and also some superb ones on the blind-geek-zone website: and this from Microsoft itself: List, here is the direct link to the Microsoft web site for the article to help get you oriented to windows 7 entitled "Accessibility-transitioning to windows 7". It is 20 pages long, has excellent descriptions and includes a very usable set of tables with short cut keys that we all need to know and use if we cannot access the mouse. Have fun. John http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows7/transition.aspx hope these are helpful, inthane . Moderator, Blind Access Help. . Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of an alacorn" www.alacorncomputer.com . proprietor: Inthane's Grab Bag for blind computer users and Programmers! http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa D Porter" <lisaporter429@...> To: "Farfar on Laptop" <dgcarlson@...>; "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:12 PM Subject: Re: About to go to Windows 7 -- Arrgh! Hi, |
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