ease of access

Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...

While gaming last night, I got very tired, and it seems that when the message popped up asking if I wanted to use the alternate function when striking the same key multiple times, I accidentally hit yes. I can tell because I have to wait to enter the same key twice now, and I have to wait to use...

When I right-click on a JPG file then select Properties/Details and hover the cursor over the right half of the Comments row the expanded comments won't display for longer than 5 seconds. I've already tried increasing the Control Panel/Ease of Access Center/Make it easier to focus on...

Running Windows 7 Ultimate N x86 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 I used MSConfig to set the computer to boot into Safe Mode - Minimal Services. I did nothing else. That's the only thing I did. Now when it gets to the login screen, nothing shows up. Just the cursor, the Ease of Access button, and...

I have an issue where the Drop Down menu to select meeting times in Outlook is not working. I'm unable to select meeting times via the mouse and must type them in. I have tested this and found that the drop down disappears when you move the mouse pointer over it. I have only been able to get...

I was going to go find these when another Forum Member beat me to it, LOL. Thanks for that!! Anyway, being the big, handy help that they are, I feel they should be a Sticky, though, not just sure in what section of our W8 Forum. Nor can I find or recall where his entry was or in what thread...

Touch pad on laptop Hoovering over an item opens it. What happened to double click. I have restored defaults in folder options, mouse properties and ease of accsess center. External mouse via usb port works perfect? Driving me crazy:cry_smile:

Hi, I can't find this as I dunno how to explain it for googling.... unless I get irrelevant answers! When I clear my browser (IE9) cache, cookies etc, whether via ccleaner or the delete browsing history general tab, I get an annoying voice telling me "how to clear cache, then cookies etc"...

I edited some settings in the keyboard section of the "Ease of Access" area on my W7 operating system. I was wondering how I can revert to the default settings there (since I don't know what they were), even it if means reverting everything in Ease of Access to the default settings, such as for...

I have what I think is an Ease of Access problem on a laptop that was bought in March of this year. When I start it up in the morning or any time during the day after it has been shut down or I have restarted, I have to click on the icon that is down in the lower left which says "Ease of Access"...

Trying to help a friend out with his computer - we already checked the registry keys to ensure they were set to have Num Lock on at boot - and typically he has no issues with Num Lock. However when he opens Windows Live Email it turns off Num Lock. I tested to see if opening Windows Live...

Ok...so originally, I was having all sorts of odd problems with the capslock. Lowercase letters when capslock was on, upper case when capslock was off, symbols instead of numbers regardless of capslock of shift key, etc. I disabled every single keyboard related "ease of access" setting (sticky...

Hello, I have a blue tooth keyboard attached to my laptop, am having extreme problems with letters repeating with me when not intended. I have already slowed it down as much as possible in the control panel, and also tried filter keys in the ease of keyboard use section, but had to disable...

I went to set up my microphone using the program from ease of access or whatever it is considered, and when i clicked on it, it always shows this warning I've tweaked with it repeatedly and never seem to get this program to work except once, but my computer had an issue and i had to restore...

We've been cooking a few great features lately, amongst them is a convenient feature that allows users to tag others in a thread. This could be useful when you want to point something out to another user, such as new a game, a troubleshooting process or just for Ease of Access. When you're...

Hi there, I am hoping to find a solution to this: I want to position the [entire] Control Panel[text and icons] at the top of the desktop window, as is available in XP. One simply drags the icon in the 'Computer' set up[I put this in the taskbar] to the top of the screen and then rt clk near the...

Everybody in the world except me may already know this. I just found it and it is very helpful to me and hopefully to a few hundred or few thousand other users. This may have been available in Vista and possibly even XP, but I know it is available in Windows 7. If you frequently accidentally hit...

I'm an admin on a Windows 7 PRO 64 bit Problem is I can't set an image for my wallpaper or I can't change my wallpaper I did a sysprep on a ref machine and since reloading the image(with imagex) I can't change the background, it's black and there is no way to set an image as a background...

Hello. I woke up this morning, turned on my computer, and my wallpaper was black, which it wasn't the day before. Okay, I tried to change it, and I got the error message "This image can't be set as wallpaper. An internal error ocurred." Okay, I went into my regedit and wanted to see if...

Hello everyone, i have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium - 32 bit. I started typing, using my left shift button and all the sudden a box popped up just as i was hitting enter. I briefly saw Filter keys on the title before the window disappeared. After that, my keyboard...