[gui-talk] A Windows 7 Question

Wed Dec 29 18:30:24 UTC 2010

Once you have found a file, press the spacebar on it instead of the Enter key.  This should select it so you can copy or move it.  Check out the View menu of Windows Explorer; try to check Details and List rather than thumbnails.  As a last resort, you could right-click or use the Applications key on a file and select Properties for more information, including its location.

I still get tripped up by Windows Explorer in Win 7.  But when you are selecting programs on the start menu or the task bar, try the Applications key.  This often gives you a context menu containing useful shortcuts to the program or files you previously opened with it.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of debbi williamson
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:55 PM
To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; GUI Talk Mailing List Discussion of the Graphical User Interface
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] A Windows 7 Question

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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