[access-uk] Re: NC10
- From: "Barry G" <lister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:40:20 +0100
Hi Saqib, not sure if this will work but it's a long shot and won't cost you
anything to try... I know that the left alt key and the left shift key pressed
together toggles through different keyboard languages in Microsoft Word but
don't know how to check whether this is a Word hot key or a Windows one, hence
whether it will work throughout Windows.
I discovered this when demonstrating the left alt, left shift and print screen
hotkey to toggle the Windows high contrast/high visibility setting on and off,
so I suspect that it is a Windows rather than a Word thing, so give it a try.
In Word 2003 with JFW 7, Jaws voices the language that has been selected as you
toggle through. Watch out, as it includes a number of non-western languages,
which is how I foundout I had done something wrong when I got Taiwanese Chinese
characters after missing the print screen key!
Anyway, give it a try - and both US and UK English will be in the options as
you cycle through.
One final thought, I don't know what happens on a laptop/netbook keyboard
layout, you may need to plug in a USB full keyboard to do this.
All the best,
Barry G
----- Original Message -----
From: Saqib
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:17 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10
Hi Eleanor. I got my wife to read the screen for the installation process. I
managed to read the the process where I had to press enter to boot from DVD as
it was white on black. These DVD drives also come with a power lead as the
netbook is not powerfull enough to power the DVD drive on it's own. However the
keyboard is set to US and I can't find the option in keyboard settings in
control pannel to set it to UK.
From: ELEANOR BURKE
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:08 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10
Fantastic news and congratulations. I am a little confused. What function
other than jplugging in the USB hard drive did it play? How did you manage it
all? Did you have sighted help or did you use that Narator thing?
Eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: Saqib
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] NC10
Hi all. I have resolved my problem with the netbook. I managed to buy a
external drive which is an LG brand. I plugged it in and connected it to the
netbook with it's USB cable. The netbook asked me to hit any key to boot from
the DVD drive. From there on I went through a formatting process which took
over half an hour. The netbook rebooted its self then started to install XP and
that took quite a while and I was asked questions reguards to configuration. I
also had to install the Samsung drivers from the disk supplied. All in all the
whole process took one and an half hours and the netbook runs much faster now.
I won't be installing many apps as I think that might of bin one of the things
which was slowing it down when starting up. Before I had MS Office Student 2007
amongst 3 screen readers along with lot of other applications and voices.
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