----- Original Message -----

From: chris judge

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 6:17 PM

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Good experience with Microsoft disability help desk

That’s awesome, did you have to go in to the bios or were you able to do it in windows.

 

Chris Judge

 

From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of Loy
Sent: August 17, 2020 3:29 PM
To: main@TechTalk.groups.io
Subject: [TechTalk] Good experience with Microsoft disability help desk

 

I had a good experience with  the Microsoft disability help desk using Be My Eyes app. They were able to help me disable the FN key on my new laptop.

Hello. On a list that I moderate I received a question from a user who
accesses Gmail via their Web interface using Firefox and NVDA for the
screen reader. I don't know what version of NVDA or Firefox is being used.

When going to Gmail.com and composing a new message the behavior worked
similarly to what you would find in Outlook or Thunderbird. If the user
typed a few letters she would encounter an autocomplete list of
suggestions for the address. Lately, she reports that this is no longer
working and that she no longer receives a list of suggestions. I tried
this using Firefox 79 and NVDA 2020.2 but was unable to reproduce the
issue. In fact, as soon as I typed the first letter I received an
accessible list of suggested addresses. I'm wondering if the view may
have gotten switched from standard to HTML? The problem is that I rarely
use their Web interface and so I'm not very familiar with it and so am
not the most qualified to assist her. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Have others encountered this problem and found a successful workaround?



--
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019

WWW.DavidGoldfield.org

I’m one of the most naïve users in this group.  How well might I use net  flicks with jaws?

Thanks,

Jeff

I’m one of the most naïve users in this group.  How well might I use net  flicks with jaws?

Thanks,

Jeff

Good evening Nancy, the easiest way to do this to secure all of the
personal
settings you have for your computer is to create an image of your hard
drive
on another drive, which will give you the capability of bringing your
machine back to the moment you created the image.

To begin with, determine what you really need to keep for a
restoration. If
you have copies of music, emails, or text that you have already put away,
then you can remove them from your drive before starting in order to keep
the image within manageable limits. This is only necessary if space is an
issue.

When you've accomplished your housecleaning, check to see how much
space is
being used. Then look at your external drives to determine where you have
sufficient space to store your image.

To begin, tap your Windows key and type in the word "backup". This will
open up your restore utility, tab to "backup and restore windows 7" and
select by pressing enter. Press the tab several times until you see
create an image of this computer. Press the enter key to select this
item,
and after a short time, the next tab will show you an option of which
drive
you may select. This only occurs if you have other drives plugged in
at the
moment.

Finally, launch the process, and give yourself a few hours to do
something
else. You can use the computer while this is happening, but I suggest
it may
be risky. I do mine overnight.

The computer will inform you when it's finished, and offer you the
opportunity to create a startup disk. You must select this option and be
ready with a blank CD, DVD, or memory stick to record this special boot
material. It is altogether likely, that if your computer has a CD/DVD
drive,
your BIOS has been set to see it first in the boot sequence. If your
computer has no media drive, that it is altogether likely that your BIOS
will see a device such as a memory stick or a remote CD drive as first in
the boot sequence.

Now, when it comes time to restore from that image, start your
computer with
the CD – memory stick ready to go. Give your system a minute or two to
sort
itself out, which it will do without speech. Generally, hitting the enter
key a couple of times will launch the restore. If not you may need
someone
to take a peek at the screen.

Just for your information, there is a circulation of Windows PE that can
come up talking and will give you control of the image restoration.
Probably
far more complexity than that for which you are prepared.

I hope this is helpful, and that if anyone sees I've missed something,
please jump in.

Geoff


-----Original Message----- From: Nancy Hill
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 9:26 AM
To: TechTalk
Subject: [TechTalk] How do u clone a laptop's hard drive?

Hi All, Thanks to y'all I have gotten to the point where I am wanting to
get a copy/clone of my laptop's hard drive so I will be able to restore
it with most of the tweaks I like to have on my machine should the need
ever arise.


Is there a place to get instructions on how to clone a hard drive?


I am running win10 and one of the latest jaws. My laptop has a 1TB SSD
and I have 2 1 TB WD external My Passports ready to receive the
clone/copy.


I don't know how often I should clone my PC as it is not a business
machine...just my personal device.


Your suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in Advance!

Nancy