Hi. The 2 voice thing is normal. I think in the setup image they put in a smaller voice. I also find Narrator is a lot more snappier in the setup mode as opposed to when we get into the Windows install proper. This Narrator is only ever injected into the official Microsoft setup media, its not in any of the WinPE images so doesn't make it into anything else like recovery environments etc. We also find out that it can get missed, for example the Windows 11 23H2 ISOs didn't have Narrator in them at first. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: David Mehler via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2024 1:21 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest Hello, Thank you all for your replies. Billy no my setup wasn't in fullscreen mode, when I put it there your right that shortcut key worked much better, gave me the info I needed. Apparently and this is weird it was waiting for me to press any key to boot from CD, I thought that had a time limit on it? Unrelated, there are two voices, a female one on the first screens and a male one after the first reboot, anyone know what that female voice is? Thanks. Dave. On 1/10/24, Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi.
Whenever I use a remote VM I always try and use full screen and quit the local screen reader. I have always had trouble keeping both screen readers working without the keystrokes impacting the local screen reader.
Thanks. Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Dengler via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 3:10 AM To: 'Mailing list for blind system administrators' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: codeofdusk@gmail.com Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest
Hit Control+g to allow all keys to be intercepted, then you can Control+Shift+Return. Control+Alt returns to host.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: Billy Irwin via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 7:07 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Billy Irwin <billy.irwin@outlook.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest
I am wondering if you have it in full screen mode or not. A lot of the virtualization tools will require you to be in this mode to do that shortcut key. I do this fine in Hyper-V as long as the Enhanced Session is enabled which some one from this list recommended. While it isn't totally related to the question, that bit of knowledge share here was so helpful that I am able to manage several Fail Over Clusters using Hyper-V.
Best,
Billy
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 3:21 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest
Hi.
I once followed this article to get a Windows Server up and running with speech. Note this was after installation and I had installed the VMware tools. I have never used it with a client based OS like Windows 10.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003425
Thanks. Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: David Mehler via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 8:10 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest
Hello,
I'm not sure on either point. For the OCR question using NVDA and insert+r I get a recognizing box the only thing that's in it is the title of the window in this case windows 10[
In terms of what is happening in the VM I'm going to assume that it is at least getting keyboard input or most of it because when I atempt to activate narrator to help with the install I'm hoping my command is right, control+windows+enter although I've tried alt and shift, whenever that windows key comes in to play I hear from my host system NVDA "caps lock on".
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks. Dave.
On 1/9/24, Ben Mustill-Rose via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
What do you see if you OCR the screen? Are you sure that the VM's receiving your keypresses?
On 1/9/24, David Mehler via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hello,
The subject says what I'm trying to do, I've got Vmware Workstation Pro version 16 going on my system. To that I'd like to add Win10 pro x64. I've got the vm created, and have created a win10 22h2 iso, fed that to the vm, and started it. I'm trying to get speech going and it's not working, not doing anything.
Any ideas welcome. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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