Or, you can use nvda or system access to go, really there is no reason to even pay for expensive screen readers anymore. On Aug 31, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Kevin Barry <krba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not cool. I suppose it would be childish of me to pipe up and remind > everyone that Window-eyes doesn't make you register your copies like some > criminal. > KB > > At 11:04 PM 8/30/2014, you 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. -- 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.
