[JAWSLite] Re: color setting in display settings.

Hi Jim:

Below is the recommended settings for jaws with XP that freedom scientific 
suggests for Windows XP and JAWS

in Windows XP Home or Professional. You must be logged in with

administrative rights to make several of these changes.

Many of these settings are changed within Control Panel. To open Control

Panel, press the WINDOWS KEY to open the Start Menu, move to Control Panel,

and press ENTER.

Note: The recommended settings changes are not typically necessary for more 
recent versions of JAWS, such as 6.x and 7.x etc, but I find it works 
better if you do make the changes.

Beginning with JAWS 7.10, it is not necessary to change Windows XP's 
display properties to Classic view. JAWS is compatible with either the 
default XP view

or the Windows Classic view. However, when navigating lists with the 
keyboard, there are slight advantages to using the Classic view.

Freedom scientific used to suggest setting the display properties as 
follows before jaws version 7.10.

• Display Properties

1. From the Control Panel, move to "Display" and press Enter.

2. From the themes combo box, select Windows classic.

3. In the List of backgrounds on the Desktop page, choose Bliss.

4. Set Position to "Stretch."

5. In the Screen Saver combo box on the Screen Saver page, press HOME to

select none.

6. On the Appearance page, set Windows and Buttons to Windows classic

style.

7. Set Color Scheme to Windows Standard.

8. Set Font to normal.

9. Close the dialog.

Note: After making these changes, the Display page Themes combo box says

"Modified Theme.".

In addition when using the windows XP theme view Freedom Scientific used to 
suggest the below:

• Display Properties for windows XP theme view.

1. minimize all applications (windows key+m)

2. Un select the item if it's checked (control+spacebar)

3. Activate the context menu (windows application key)

note: this is the key to the left of the right control key on standard 
windows keyboards.

4. Press the letter r to activate the display properties

5. on the Themes Page:

set to windows xp.

To change press alt plus down arrow to open

note: Do not use XP modified

6. Control Tab to the Desktop Tab

Set background to bliss

Set position stretch

7. Press Control Tab to Screen Saver

Set to none]

8. Control Tab to Appearance Tab

Set to Windows xp

Color Scheme blue default

Font Size Normal

9. Control+tab to the settings tab, set the color to 32 bit and resolution 
to 1024 by 768

10. Tab to okay and hit enter.

• ** I find instead, with jaws 8 I get better results using XP pro by 
making the following display changes in Display Properties.

1. Press the WINDOWS KEY to open the Start Menu, move to Control Panel, and 
press ENTER.

2. If not already in classic view, Press TAB twice. You should hear, 
"Switch to classic view, button."

3. Press SPACEBAR. This changes Control Panel to classic view, if not 
already in classic view.

4. Press D until Display is selected, and press ENTER.

5. On the Themes page in the Theme combo box, change the setting to 
"Windows classic.".

6. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Desktop page. In the List of backgrounds, 
choose "none.".

7. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Screen Saver.

8. The Screen Saver combo box should be active. Press HOME to change this 
to "(None).".

9. Control tab to the setting Paige, set the color to 16 bit medium bit and 
resolution to 1024 by 768.

10. Press CTRL+TAB to move to Appearance. the Windows and Buttons combo box 
should be active. Set this to Windows Classic Style.

11. Press TAB to move to the next control, the Color Scheme combo box. Set 
this to Windows Standard. Press TAB one more time to move to the Font Size 
combo box. and Make sure that the Font is set to "normal.".

12. Press ALT+E to activate the "Effects" button. A 3 state button is 
active; it is labeled "Use the following transition effect for menus and 
tool tips.".

Press SPACEBAR to change this to say "3-state button, not checked.".

13. Press TAB to move to the checkbox "Hide Underlined letters for keyboard 
navigation until I press the ALT key." Press SPACEBAR to clear this check 
box.

14. Press ENTER to close this dialog and you return to the Appearance page.

NOTE: these changes have now caused the Themes page Themes combo box to say 
"Modified Theme."

15. Press ENTER to return to Control Panel.

• Below are changes that you can make to make navigation easier. You must 
be logged in with administrative rights to make several of these changes.

• The following procedures show three different ways to change specific 
areas of Windows.

• Folder Options

• Start Menu

• Windows Explorer

Folder Options

To change to Classic view using Folder Options, do the following:

list of 6 items

1. Press the WINDOWS KEY to open the Start menu, press C until Control 
Panel is selected, and then press ENTER.

2. From the Control Panel, press ALT+T to go to the Tools menu.

3. Press O for Folder Options.

4. From the Tasks radio button group, select Use Windows Classic folders.

5. (Optional):

a. On the View page, move to the Advanced Settings tree view.

b. Clear the Hide Extensions For Known File Types check box.

c. If you also use screen magnification software, clear the Show pop-up 
description for folder and desktop items check box. Pop up descriptions 
often hides

the menu item just below any given menu item, making it impossible to 
visually see the next item in the menu list.

d. Move to the Apply to All Folders button and press SPACEBAR.

e. Select Yes in the dialog that opens to acknowledge this change.

6. Move to the OK button in the Folder Options dialog box and press 
SPACEBAR to close this dialog box.

Start Menu

To change to Classic view using the Start menu, do the following:

1. Press the WINDOWS KEY to open the Start menu, press C until Control 
Panel is selected, and then press ENTER.

2. From Control Panel, move to Taskbar and Start Menu and press ENTER.

3. From the Taskbar page, press ALT+G to move to and uncheck Group Similar 
Taskbar Buttons.

4. Press ALT+H to move to and uncheck the check box for Hide inactive 
icons.

5. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Start Menu page.

6. Select Classic Start menu.

7. Press ENTER to close this dialog box.

Windows Explorer

To change the view Windows Explorer, do the following:

1. Press WINDOWS KEY+E to open Windows Explorer, and then select your hard 
drive in your tree view. This drive may be referred to as Local Disk C.

2. Press ALT+V to open the View menu, and then press D for details. Items 
in the list view appear as a single vertical list.

3. Press ALT+V, and select Arrange Icons by. Press ENTER to open the 
submenu.

4. Move to the menu item Name to arrange by Name, and press ENTER to select 
this and close the menus.

5. Press ALT+V again, and select Arrange Icons by. Press ENTER to open the 
submenu.

6. Move to the menu item Show in Groups. If it is checked, press ENTER to 
uncheck it and close the menus.

7. Press ALT+T to open the Tools menu, and press O to open the Folder 
Options Dialog.

8. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the View page.

9. Press SPACEBAR to activate the Apply to All Folders button, and press 
SPACEBAR on the YES button to acknowledge this change.

10. Move to the OK button and press SPACEBAR to close this dialog box.

• System Performance

1. From the Control Panel, move to System and press ENTER to open the

System Properties Dialog.

2. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Advanced page.

3. Press ALT+S to activate the Performance Settings button. The

Performance Options Dialog opens.

4. Clear the following check boxes:

a. Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing.

b. Slide open Combo Boxes.

c. Smooth-scroll List Boxes.

d. Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons.

5. Press ENTER to close the Performance Options dialog and return to the

System Properties dialog box.

6. Press ENTER to activate the OK button and close the System Properties

dialog box.



Warmest Regards,
Terrill Reynolds
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "jaws lite" <JAWSLite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:46 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] color setting in display settings.


Hi list,
In Windows XP, should the color setting in display be set for windows
classic or windows standard for the best performance of Jaws 8? I am 
running
XP Pro and Jaws 8.
Jim

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