[access-uk] Re: Operating System on this computer
- From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:32:32 -0000
Hi Andy
You said you loaded the Media discs and nothing happened. Do you mean
exactly that? If so it could be the autostart is not working for whatever
reason, probable a BIOS tweak. But Start/Run/Disc Drive letter colon and
forward slash/Browse should open the disc for interrogation and click on the
install or setup command.
Roger
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Operating System on this computer
> Hi again Ray.
>
> Thanks for message.
>
> My computer is currently running XP Home version 5, and I have the CD's
> for
> changing this to XP Media Center. I'll get Pauline to assist me again and
> try to install these over the weekend.
>
> As for VISTA, I'm not intending to upgrade just now. Many people are
> saying
> that we shoud wait till later this year. Perhaps I could have put off the
> purchase of this computer until the c and as you say, went out and
> purchased
> a VISTA computer, but I thought that It would be worth using this time and
> try and get used to the Media Center OS.
>
> A list member is going to assist me, for the time-being, to move to
> Eloquence, as I'm still experiencing difficulty understanding what
> WindowEyes is saying. Perhaps once I understand more clearly, then I can
> ajust to the new keystrokes.
>
> My messages last night to the GW list have resulted in loads of responces
> so
> it will probably take me all day to go thorugh these, given my current
> problems. If I installed JAWS, I could go through them in no-time, but
> where would I be then? Although it's very tempting, I really don't wish
> to
> return to the fish just yet.
>
> Speak later.
>
> Best wishes.
> Andy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:30 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Operating System on this computer
>
>
>> Yes, Andy, sorry about that, and George Bell's reply should get you a
>> more
>> useful summary of what you've got there. That is, properties under 'my
>> computer! reached via the context menu or alt plus enter whilst on the
>> My
>> Computer icon.th
>>
>> Maybe its the wrong time and place to say it, especially as you've bought
>> a new
>> computer, but I cannot help thinking a new machine with Vista already
>> installed
>> is a better alternative to upgrading, though I hope for your sake that
>> upgrading
>> if and when you do that, turns out to be less of a problem than I fear it
>> might
>> be.
>>
>> I certainly hope it is a Media Center version of Windows you have there
>> as
>> I
>> recall you did particularly want that. I believe Window-Eyes does work
>> quite
>> well with Media Center, though I've had no cause to try it.
>>
>> From Ray
>> I can be contacted off-list at:
>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
>> Of Andy Logue
>> Sent: 08 March 2007 11:16PM
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Operating System on this computer
>>
>>
>> Hi Ray.
>>
>> It Said Microsoft XP Home version 5.1.....
>>
>> But it was supposed to be a Media Center computer, or be it, shipped with
>> XP
>> Home to get me started. I've got a CD titled Quick Start Media Center
>> and
>> Pauline attempted, last weekend to install this, but it just sat there
>> doing nothing. Perhaps I need to try it again. I've never seen a Media
>> Center computer Ray so whould not know the difference. I'm having loads
>> of
>> problems and doubts about moving from XP home to Media Center and from
>> JAWS
>> to WindowEyes. I'm seriously thinking of moving back to JAWS, but I'd
>> need
>> to spend a bunch to access Media Center. I'd need JAWS Pro eh? From
>> version 6.0 to Pro ver 8 would cost me a bomb, and I've just spend a
>> couple
>> of quid moving to WindowEyes. I even bought a new computer which has a
>> crap
>> sound card and speakers and the monitor looks prettty poor also. Not my
>> week at all eh?
>>
>> Best wishes and thanks for the advice.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:46 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Operating System on this computer
>>
>>
>>> Andy, one way of getting the version of Windows you're running is to go
>>> to
>>> the
>>> command prompt by typein "command" in the run box.
>>>
>>> Once there, typing ver at the prompt returns the version info of Windows
>>> you're
>>> running.
>>>
>>> You must, of cours, type 'exit' to return to Windows.
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>
>>> From Ray
>>> I can be contacted off-list at:
>>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
>>> Of Andy Logue
>>> Sent: 08 March 2007 10:19PM
>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [access-uk] Operating System on this computer
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I've purchased a new computer.
>>>
>>> I thought that perhaps if it was going to last me 2-3 years, then I'd
>>> probably move up to VISTA during that time. I decided to purchase a
>>> Media
>>> Center computer rather then an XP Home computer.
>>>
>>> The computer I purchased was advertised as a Media Center computer, but
>>> was
>>> shipped with a copy of XP Home for easy set-up.
>>>
>>> I'm sitting in front of it now and to the best of my knowledge, I could
>>> be
>>> sitting in front of an XP Home computer.
>>>
>>> I've also move from JAWS to Windoweyes - Perhaps not a pernament
>>> arrangement, so I'm having terrible problems nogiating my way around
>>> this
>>> system.
>>>
>>> My question.
>>>
>>> What is the best method to find out which OS I am indeed using as I'm
>>> really
>>> now unsure.
>>>
>>> I whent into System, but because I'm not used to WindowEyes, I cnnot
>>> seem
>>> to
>>> find out the information I need.
>>>
>>> Any assistance would be very welcomed.
>>> Best wishes.
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
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