[gui-talk] avoiding IE 7 for the time being

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi all,
I'm using XP Home w/SP 2, IE 6 and Jaws 7.0.  I understand that I could 
install IE 7 and use it successfully with Jaws if I were to upgrade to Jaws 
7.1 and add to that a patch that's being offered from the Freedom Scientific 
site to enable version 7.1 to support it.

But rather than go to all that trouble, especially because a lot of 
subscribers to the JFW list have reported having issues with Jaws 7.1,I've 
decided simply to wait for the release of Jaws 8.0, which is said to be IE7 
ready.

So far, so good, I thought.  But  just now, realizing that the latest 
Windows  critical updates were probably ready a couple of days ago, I went 
to the critical updates site and looked over the available stuff.  And 
here's the problem:  there are quite a lot of critical updates available 
this month, including of course IE 7, which has been included as everyone 
knows because Microsoft has endowed it with some major security features.

Well, ordinarily I just use the button that selects and downloads all the 
critical updates, once I look them over and determine that there aren't any 
that say they're going to modify video and possibly screw up Jaws, as 
happened once to me when I had automatic updates turned on and had not 
restricted it to critical updates.  I know there shouldn't be any 
video-related stuff in critical updates, but I always look now, anyway. 
Better safe than sorry.

but if I use that group download control this time, it'll include IE 7 among 
the downloads.  Yet I really don't want to take the time it would require 
using Jaws instead of eyes and a mouse to go from one update to the other , 
downloading them individually except for IE7 (which makes me wonder why they 
don't set this up with check boxes, for God's sake?).

So, long story short, I remember some talk about there being a tool of some 
sort that's going around that can allow you to download critical updates and 
avoid getting IE7 in the process.  I need to learn about this now, where to 
get it, how to do all this.

Can anyone help?  Sorry not to have been paying attention before.

Thanks.