Hi all, Just had a reply from Sight And Sound, JAWS Support here in the U.K. Apparently this is an issue that a few other users have encountered and Freedomscientific are working on a fix. So releaved in a way that it is not this laptop again as I have had a few issues with sound card dropouts and that which I have thankfully managed to find work around for. It is a lovely laptop apart from the fact that the battery life is pretty rubbish, you are lucky to get 2 hours out of it constant use. It will last for quite a bit longer if I am just playing music to my bluetooth speaker and not actually typing and using JAWS, seems a bit strange as JAWS is only using the internal speakers but I guess that it is having to process a lot more and it does turn off the hard drive after a while as well which probably helps. Maybe I will try disabling the bluetooth and using it constantly with JAWS but I can't really see that this will make much different, in my experience, bluetooth seems really efficient on power consuption. FN+f10 is supposed to turn off the keyboard backlight but I don't think that my model has that. Strange thing is that in the manual, it says that fn+home will disable the radio, I am guessing that this is the wireless radio as there is a separate key, fn+printscreen to disable the wireless but in my opinion, the manual seems to gbe a generic one and not the specific one for my machine as it says that you can disable the AMD graphics in the bios but there is no option there and when I called then, they said you can't do it.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of HICKS, Steven (ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST) Sent: 10 April 2018 17:52 To: 'JAWS-Users-List@JAWS-Users.COM' <JAWS-Users-List@JAWS-Users.COM> Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 2018 Latest Build And Microsoft Excel 2018 --- This message was sent from an email address external to NHSmail but gives the appearance of being from an NHSmail address. Verify the sender and content is legitimate before acting upon information contained within. --- Dear friends, I Am running a Dell Enspiron 5570 laptop with Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 bit. I Am unable to run Microsoft Excel 2016 after a fresh installation. It won't even run in safe mode. Basically I can start typing, just entering the column headers, I get to the third entry and it just stops responding. The laptop has an Intel HD620 and AMD HD530 video adaptor. I Have tried disabling the AMD adaptor, re-booting and testing Microsoft Excel and it does the same thing. Both video drivers are up-to-date, the latest from Dell. If I close JAWS and use NVDA, it seems to work just fine. I Have Microsoft Outlook 2016 and that seems to work just fine as well. Running in safe mode disables any Microsoft Excel plugins apparently. I Also use an internet based application called Service Anywhere and that seems to work just fine, it is just the Microsoft Excel that I have issues with. There don't seem to be any options in the Intel or AMD graphics settings to set a primary video adaptor, all the apps only seem to have two options, one for normal and the other for power saving. I Called Dell and they say that there is no way to disable the Intel or AMD graphics adaptors in the bios despite what the manual says, I have had two sighted colleagues check in the bios as well and they are experienced i.t. people, they can find no way to disable either of the graphics adaptors. Do you have any idea about anything that I can try please, this is quite frustrating as I use Microsoft Excel quite a lot. Many thanks in anticipation, ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in relation to its contents. To do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland. NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and other accredited email services. For more information and to find out how you can switch, https://portal.nhs.net/help/joiningnhsmail For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in relation to its contents. To do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland. NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and other accredited email services. For more information and to find out how you can switch, https://portal.nhs.net/help/joiningnhsmail For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
