I thought I would leave an update on my struggles with getting used to
Windows 10 and ask another question. First, I solved that problem about
an accessibility driver not being installed properly in JAWS. I called
technical support today and was advised to remove JAWS 2020 from my
computer and reinstall it. That worked, but it was really time
consuming. My download kept hanging and I had to start over several
times. Then I tried to reinstall Open Book 9. That was easy enough, but
it was really time consuming too. It has been about five years since I
installed it the last time, but I sure don't remember it taking nearly
an hour and a half to copy the files from the disk to my computer. I did
what I was advised to do on this list. I saved it to my documents
folder. The good news is that it now shows on my desktop and I clicked
through to it and it appears to be ready for scanning even though all my
folders are empty and I have none of my previous scans or anything else
in it, but it is not ready for the scanning I want to do. That is, I
will have to consume even more time getting all of my settings just
right and it has been so long since I got them just right the last time
that I will have to learn all over how to do it. So I am not quite ready
to resume scanning the book I was on. I made a big mistake, though, in
saving it to my documents folder. I had to click the custom install
button to save it there and when I was about to do so I came across a
link for creating a new folder. Somehow right then it was in my mind
that that was not necessary and I just skipped it. Bad mistake! My
documents folder is now so full of Open Book components that I can't
find my documents. Since my documents have to be buried in there
somewhere I don't want to go willy-nilly deleting them and risk deleting
something I want to keep. Besides, I don't want to have to go through
that long wait while the files copy again. I have been thinking about
what to do and I have come to think that this is the best solution. That
is, I could copy the contents of the whole folder all at once and create
a mew subfolder to paste it in. Then I could, at my leisure, delete one
file at a time deleting all the Open book files from the main documents
folder and all the document files from the Open Book subfolder. So here
is my first question. Is that advisable or can you think of a better
way. Advisable or not, I can't do it right now anyway. I am a self
taught computer user and while teaching myself when I found a way to do
something I have tended to stick with that way. One of the ways I have
learned many things is to press the alt key and then explore the menus.
That means that, as long as I have been at it, I most often press the
alt key for the menus whenever I want to do something and unlike other
people I have not memorized a lot of those combinations of key strokes
that would make it quicker like I think most of you do. So when I have
wanted to create a new folder I have always selected the file I want to
put in it, go to the menu and find either the move or copy menu items
and follow the prompts including the prompt about creating a new folder.
Well, with Windows 10 I don't seem to be able to do that. I press the
alt key and if I arrow down I get a list of things that have nothing to
do with what I want to do and at some certain point down the list it
seems to turn into a list of file folders in various places in my
computer. If I arrow up I quickly find myself in ribbons. I have never
learned to use ribbons and they just confuse me. I can't figure out how
to navigate in them for one thing. I don't even understand what they are
for. The old way seemed to be better to me. So here is my second
question. Providing that it is advisable to do what I have described how
do I create a new folder or subfolder in Windows 10?
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Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind
and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says
everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the
fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
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