[gui-talk] Navigating in Windows Mail

[Ray Foret jr]

Thanks Raul.  That template change solved the problem with my contacts 
beautifully.  Now to try to solve the sound problem; yeah right.

Sincerely,
The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
Phone:
985-360-3375
e-mail:
rforetjratcomcastdotnet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Navigating in Windows Mail


> I've just done away with Windows mail because of all its problems.
> Thunderbird has been a much better solution. However, there is an answer
> to your contact lockup problem.
>
> The reason the contacts window locks up is due to a bug in Microsoft and
> the templates used. Even if you unload your screen reader and load
> Narrator instead, it will fail. The work around for this to work
> properly follows:
>
> 1. Open your contacts folder, but do not press any arrow keys.
>
> 2. Press alt-v, then f for the folder template dialog box.
>
> 3. Choose the "all" template which should be the first one in the list.
>
> 4. Press enter.
>
> Now, your contacts window will be using the all documents template
> instead of the contacts template and you will not experience any more
> lockups.
>
>
> Ray Foret jr said the following on 4/1/2008 9:27 AM:
>> Wayne,
>>
>>     I've experienced the very same issue you Aare.  I just bought my new
>> Acer Laptop from Best Buy with Vista, and, exactly the same thing is
>> happening to me.  In fact, I no longer bother with message filtering 
>> rules
>> just because have no work around for this problem yet.  It's one of the
>> things I want to talk to FS about today.  Also, I'm having the issue that
>> when I go in to my contact list from inside Windows mail, I have trouble
>> navigating up and down the list.  In fact, more often than not, when I 
>> press
>> the down arrow to go to the next contact from the top of the list, 
>> Contacts
>> fails to respond.  I usually get a Microsoft windows error message that 
>> says
>> "Contacts is not responding...".  It gives me the usual dialog about 
>> closing
>> down the program or restarting it.  You will have noticed that contacts 
>> is a
>> part of Vista itself and not of Windows Mail proper.  The Microsoft web 
>> site
>> seems to have no information on this problem.  Also, I've noticed that 
>> JAWS
>> won't save my settings when I'm in Windows mail and I press insert+v and
>> change something in  that list.  Worst of all, I noticed that when I plug
>> something in to the line in jack to make a recording, I cannot hear the
>> sound coming back to me from the speakers.  If this is normal, than I'm
>> screwed.  How can I record reliably if I can't hear the audio coming in 
>> to
>> my card?  Anyhow, these are just a few of the things I'm finding out.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
>> Phone:
>> 985-360-3375
>> e-mail:
>> rforetjratcomcastdotnet
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at austin.rr.com>
>> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:46 AM
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Navigating in Windows Mail
>>
>>
>> Greetings all. I got my new Windows Vista Home Premium machine last week 
>> and
>> have mostly enjoyed what I've found. I've been pleasantly surprised about
>> some things and am confused on others. For instance, in Windows Mail, I'm 
>> no
>> longer able to simply move up and down the tree view and read the status 
>> bar
>> for new messages in that folder. WM keeps insisting on moving me into the
>> folder if it has any messages at all, new or old. Is there any way to 
>> alter
>> this behavior, or am I stuck to pressing extra tabs when I go into a 
>> folder
>> that I don't want to read messages in? I tend to save messages for later
>> reading for a variety of reasons.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Wayne
>>
>> My blog:
>> http://wayneism.blogspot.com
>> My websites:
>> www.wayneism.com
>> www.whitecaneday.org
>>
>>
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