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On 9/2/14, 3:39 PM, Grant Hardy wrote:
Hi Chris, my point was that on such a machine (with two USB ports), with a Dongle taking up one of those ports, you’ll be practically restricted to just one USB port and would therefore have to purchase a USB hub if you need more.GrantOn Sep 2, 2014, at 7:13 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:Hmm. I don't recall any MacBook Pros that had less than two USB ports. On the non-retina models there are two on the left edge. On the newer non-CD Retina models there is one on both the left and right sides.CB On 8/31/14, 6:05 PM, Grant Hardy wrote:Hi Mark,Go ahead and set up Windows 7 and JAWS on your MBP if that’s what you want to do. :) I doubt you’ll have any difficulties. I only had trouble because I was following specific troubleshooting steps. I removed the JAWS and Window-Eyes video drivers from the Device Manager, with intent to repair them later. In retrospect, I suppose I should have uninstalled “Freedom Scientific Video Intercept” from the Programs and Features panel in Control Panel, but there is no guarantee that this would have made any difference. In any case, I was quite taken aback that this would have totally deactivated JAWS.Dongles have their fair share of problems too, but are definitely a little more fail safe. Just a random example of a problem I’ve experienced with FS Dongles, if you connect a dongle to a computer too early (e.g. before JAWS is installed), then install JAWS, the Dongle will work absolutely fine. However, Windows will offer you a driver update for the Dongle. If you install that update, the Dongle will stop working and you’ll have a lot of troubleshooting to do before things start working again. Also of course on something like a Macbook Pro, if it is a current model, you’ll only have one USB port to work with (given the Dongle will take up the other one). That’s rather unfortunate.While repairing the Boot Camp support software is not exactly a normal part of using the computer that most people will have to do, Apple does roll out updates to the software from time to time which a lot of users will want to take advantage of. While I don’t have first hand knowledge of this, I suspect those updates will throw off the activation as well.Cheers, GrantOn Aug 31, 2014, at 12:45 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>> wrote:Hello Grant,I am so sorry you are having this problem but thank you so much for sharingyour insights. How does one go about uninstalling the Jaws Intercept video drivers? I was thinking about setting up Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro but, after reading your post, perhaps I'll rethink this. Thanks again, Mark -----Original Message-----From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:04 PM To: MacVisionaries List Subject: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS Hello all,I encountered Wi-Fi issues on a late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro while runningWindows 8.1 professional via Boot Camp. I therefore decided to do sometroubleshooting. Really the only troubleshooting suggestion I could find apart from erasing my Windows partition and starting from scratch was to repair the Boot Camp support software. I tried to do this but got errors saying that the installer could not complete and to try it again at a latertime.Upon doing some research, I discovered that at least a few people got these errors who had third-party video drivers installed, and therefore the fix was to temporarily uninstall all third-party video devices, repair the Boot Camp installation, then reinstall them. As you probably know, JAWS does in fact install a video driver to assist with screen reading, so I uninstalled it temporarily and sure enough, this was the fix. The Boot Camp installerwas able to run at that point and repaired the support software. Unfortunately, it seems that uninstalling the Freedom Scientific Video Intercept drivers triggered my JAWS activation to be lost. Clearly thisshould not have happened, but I've encountered many situations where this has happened to JAWS over the years for fairly minor system tweaks, or evensmaller things such as turning off the Wi-Fi switch on a laptop, andoccasionally you can fix the problem by putting things back to the way theywere. I hoped that reinstalling the Video Intercept drivers would havere-activated my copy of JAWS, but it did not. This feels like a bug, and Ithink users of JAWS should be aware that if they are going to repair orupdate their Boot Camp Support Software, it is likely that they will lose their activation. Since Apple does post updates to the support software fromtime to time, I think this is something to keep in mind.On another note my Wi-Fi issues are unfortunately not resolved. Among other things, Wi-Fi does not work after the computer sleeps. Windows thinks that I am using a separate Wi-Fi adapter (e.g. the label of the adapter changes from "Wi-Fi" to "Wi-Fi 2", and no connections can be established until thecomputer is rebooted. Also, the connection drops quite frequently--and again, this only happens while using Windows and not with OS X. Just wanted to share, but any insight would of course be welcomed. Grant --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups"MacVisionaries" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>.Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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