[Blindtlk] Windows 8 Aggravations

[Judy Jones]

Hello, Ariel.

I totally feel your pain.  The first time I experienced Windows 8 was when 
I got a laptop during Best Buy's Black Friday after Thanksgiving last year. 
My daughter and I thought we'd try to get laptops for $187, and we did, but 
both of us got so frustrated, we turned our laptops back in within a week.

I eventually had to go to Windows 8, but tweaked it so I'm getting the least 
amount of interference, and it behaves more like Windows 7.  There are 
things about it I don't like, but when you're forced to upgrade, you just 
have to deal with it.

I'm wondering if various toolbars are getting in the way, so make sure only 
the toolbars are checked that you want to have running for you.

I also got rid of all the stuff on my start screen, except for what I wanted 
to sho, which are the weather and Skype.

I did not want items on my taskbar so unpinned them.

I turned off the tiles, one by one, I did not want those either.

I put the control panel on my desktop.

I know these fixes are not addressing directly your issues, but maybe 
getting rid of some of the clutter may help.

At first I had difficulty with Internet explorer as well, but anything that 
came up, I googled for an answer.

You also might want to check your desktop background.  If it is too "busy" 
Jaws may not read as accurately as it could.

Also check with Freedom Scientific's tech support on help to tweak Jaws to 
do a better job with your system.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Judy