This is why it's much better to use a screen reader like nvda, no activation to lose, and no installation of video drivers, really nothing but advantages. On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I encountered Wi-Fi issues on a late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro while running > Windows 8.1 professional via Boot Camp. I therefore decided to do some > troubleshooting. Really the only troubleshooting suggestion I could find > apart from erasing my Windows partition and starting from scratch was to > repair the Boot Camp support software. I tried to do this but got errors > saying that the installer could not complete and to try it again at a later > time. > > Upon doing some research, I discovered that at least a few people got these > errors who had third-party video drivers installed, and therefore the fix was > to temporarily uninstall all third-party video devices, repair the Boot Camp > installation, then reinstall them. As you probably know, JAWS does in fact > install a video driver to assist with screen reading, so I uninstalled it > temporarily and sure enough, this was the fix. The Boot Camp installer was > able to run at that point and repaired the support software. > > Unfortunately, it seems that uninstalling the Freedom Scientific Video > Intercept drivers triggered my JAWS activation to be lost. Clearly this > should not have happened, but I've encountered many situations where this has > happened to JAWS over the years for fairly minor system tweaks, or even > smaller things such as turning off the Wi-Fi switch on a laptop, and > occasionally you can fix the problem by putting things back to the way they > were. I hoped that reinstalling the Video Intercept drivers would have > re-activated my copy of JAWS, but it did not. This feels like a bug, and I > think users of JAWS should be aware that if they are going to repair or > update their Boot Camp Support Software, it is likely that they will lose > their activation. Since Apple does post updates to the support software from > time to time, I think this is something to keep in mind. > > On another note my Wi-Fi issues are unfortunately not resolved. Among other > things, Wi-Fi does not work after the computer sleeps. Windows thinks that I > am using a separate Wi-Fi adapter (e.g. the label of the adapter changes > from "Wi-Fi" to "Wi-Fi 2", and no connections can be established until the > computer is rebooted. Also, the connection drops quite frequently--and again, > this only happens while using Windows and not with OS X. > > Just wanted to share, but any insight would of course be welcomed. > > Grant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
