Hmm, Douglas, you told me that there was a check box in an earlier message, so I'm puzzled too. Why not give NVDA a go and see if it will pick it up. NVDA works very well under Vista, at least in Home Premium it does anyway. Good luck.
Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower User Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:54 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Disabling Touch Pad
Many thanks for trying again, Chris, but I must be "thicker" than I thought or have a mental block here! I may be almost there, but the last step defeatsme. When I press Shift, Control and Tab I am on an Advanced property sheet. The only way forward seemed to be to activate a button labelled "Advanced Feature Settings". This takes me to two property sheets, one labelled Touch Pad and the second "Other". Neither seems to have the Check box I need. Any idea where I am going wrong? I suppose that it could be that thescreen reader I am using (Hal 8) is not picking something up - if necessary Iwill install something like NVDA and see if I have any more luck. Thanks anyway, Douglas On 27 Nov 2007 at 22:28, Chris Hallsworth wrote:Douglas, you're almost there! Go back into your mouse, hardware and sounds screen, shift control tab once, and uncheck that "use touch pad" check box. Press enter, and see if your touch pad has indeed been turned off. What I do to confirm is to press one of the touch pad buttons to see if JAWS respondswith "context menu", or whatever. Good luck! Chris Hallsworth-- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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