[jaws-uk] Re: Freedom Scientific Elevation
- From: "Alex Stone" <Alex.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:30:13 +0000
Why would windows update be doing that though? Surely a simple error msg would
have done the job
> On 27 Feb 2014, at 21:19, "John Rye" <john.rye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It may be to do with elevation to admin privileges under UAC (user account
> control) on Windows 7, 8 and maybe some others (Vista?).
>
> I have no direct experience of JAWS doing this, but I do know that
> applications can 'elevate' themselves if they need to in order to gain
> access to otherwise prohibited resources.
>
> Up to Windows 8 if you were a user with admin privileges, then anything you
> ran also had those privileges by default, but alas not on Windows 8 and
> hence the need to be able to elevate.
>
> A screen reader like JAWs needs all those sorts of privileges.
>
> I could be way off the mark, but that's what it sounds like to me if you are
> running one of the Windows systems above, and especially so if its 8.
>
> In which case if all is working for you Jamie I would not worry about JAWS
> elevating.
>
> John Rye
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Stone" <Alex.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:08 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Freedom Scientific Elevation
>
>
>> Jamie, never heard of it mate!
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 27 Feb 2014, at 18:36, "Jamie Cuthbertson"
>>> <jamie.cuthbertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Anyone have a clue what Freedom Scientific Elevation is?? I had a pop up
>>> as
>>> I was trying to run my check for updates and it wanted to install this
>>> software.
>>>
>>> I had said OK before I realised it was a different pop up from the one I
>>> had
>>> expected with the update.
>>>
>>> Any ideas if this is a good thing or a bad thing to have on my laptop?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>>
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