[gui-talk] A Windows 7 Question

debbi williamson debbi107 at atlanticbb.net
Wed Dec 29 17:54:30 UTC 2010


Hi, Mike,
Thanks for the suggestions.  But, neither the right arrow nor the 
applications key does anything when I search and find my files.  
And, I can only find them if I type in a couple of letters in the 
search box.  I cannot find them any other way and I cannot do 
aonthing but press enter on them.  The two files in question are 
podcasts and so they will start playing when I press enter on 
either of them.  But, I cannot copy or move them to another place 
or save them to another drive or aoything.  And, with other files 
that I have searched for, I can't find them if I go into a folder 
where I think they are.  For example, I know that I have 
downloaded files into the "downloads" folder  that are not 
digital talking books but all I can find when I go into the 
downloads folder are the digital talking books.  If I type 
something into the search box, I will find them but I cannot find 
their actual location.  Is this making any sense at all? I don't 
know how better to explain.  But it is very frustrating not to be 
able to find my files aoy other way but typing a few letters into 
the search box.  Is there any key command that will hels me find 
where the files are located?
Debbi


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing 
List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:07:58 -0800
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] A Windows 7 Question

Debbie:

With respect, quit beating up on yourself and thinking you 
changed a
setting.  The people who designed Windows 7 figured that 
(contrary to the
way you and I think), people were *more* confused looking for 
files.  When
your search finds one of the files you wish to access (as you say 
it does),
does not hitting right-arrow get you to a list of possible 
actions?  or
hitting the Applications Key?  Does not hitting ENTER take the 
default
action for a file, as in playing it?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbi Williamson" <debbi107 at atlanticbb.net
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] A Windows 7 Question


 Hi,

 I have windows 7, 64-bit and am currently using JAWS 11.  I 
download
 things
 but cannot find them.  When I do a search, they show up but, I 
cannot see
 what folders they are in and I find that I cannot select, copy 
or move
 them.
 Well, I can select them but canot copy or move them.  Is there 
some
 setting
 I should change or something I should do?  for example, when I 
searched
 for
 a podcast I'd downloaded, I couldn't find the file by name but, 
when I did
 a
 search, it appears to, somehow, be in "my music" but I cannot 
find it.
 This
 is an HP computer and, perhaps something in their windows 7 
software
 installation is set strangely.  Or, perhaps I have inadvertently 
changed
 some setting.  Any thoughts as to how to fix it?  Thanks.

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