Janusz,
Well done. This is really good work.
I'll probably get around to testing this later in the week.
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Fujitsu
Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas,
Fredrick Building,
South Fredrick Street,
Dublin2
Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559
Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie
Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie
From: "Mgr. Janusz Chmiel"
To: Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Date: 15/03/2012 17:09
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible live Windows PE environment
for visually impaired users
Sent by: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Dear developers,
I would like to inform You about several fully accessible live
projects, which are based on Windows PE and can be used for performing
many system administration tasks.
I have intensively tested those projects for system stability and
reliability and i can safely recommend those projects for all users and
system administrators.
For universal sound support, it is necessary to buy USB headsets. Only
this sound driver can be reliably used with this sound devices with all
projects.
The best tool for creating live Xp project with NVDA support is
according to my opinion project awailable for direct downloading here.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/LXC.102011.exe
This project is self install package, run it and after finishing,
prepare The blang folder and copy AYours Windows XP installation CD or
extract previously prepared .iso image.
Warning!! This project and other PE based project which are using XP
operating system as installation source are not able to cooperate with
OEM XP operating systems awailable on some machines in C:\i386 folder.
It is not possible to use those sources, only standard installation CDS
can be used. Even if You will add special files with zero byte lenght
with .sp1 .sp3, it will not work. Very probably because of other form of
crucial .sif file.
When You will have this folder prepared with extracted installation CD,
You can press The play button after running winbuilder.exe, after
choosing The source TAB, after specifiing The right folder with
installation files.
To activate play button, find The graphical object, which MSAA identifi
as ToolBar1
It is The first object of this type one object righzt from The treewiev,
You must simulate left mouse click on this object and before this click,
You must move The mouse pointer to this object.
Patiently wait, till The project will be executed. It is complex project
which is completing many file copy and other operations.
When The project will be finished, exit winbuilder and rather restart
Yours computer, because winbuilder.exe is doing somethink at The
background with RAM and it can in some cases cause system slowdown or
even hangup.
When Yours project execution will be successfull, You will be able to
find The iso folder inside The project subfolder. Find those folders on
The target installation folder of The project.
.iso image can be directly burned to The CD, or You can even transferr
it to The bootable USb stick.
For beginning, I AM recommending You to normally burn The .iso image to
The CD.
Prepare USB stick, it can store many files and folders, it do not have
to be empty. Try to create drivers folder.
drivers
Drivers folder must contain Yours sound drivers. Because special
integrated program for importing drivers to The live PE can not have The
same results, like using plug and play capability from runned XP system,
You must buy USB headsets and You must include The necessary drivers to
The drivers folder on Yours USB stick.
Other sound drivers can work, but The best results are expectable while
adding sound drivers for various integrated sound chips on motherboards
of desktops or notebook. Do not expect, that sound will work
automatically, if You will try to add drivers for Creative sound blaster
PCI based sound carts or if You would try to even support PCMCIA Sound
blaster AUDIGI SZ notebook. It will not really work.
Bestly supported sound device is really USB headsets, for example, USB
headsets from Logitech company. USB headsets must have sound chip for
generating sound, USB load speakers will not work too, because they are
not containg necessary sound chip.
USB sound carts are requiring to add special drivers and it would not
work too.
To extract Yours USB headsets sound driver, plug in Your USB headsets
while running normal XP installation and use
SmartDriverBackup2.12
This driver backup tool is excellent and it's GUI is totally MSAA
compatible.
You can get it from The various Internet sources.
Try to run this program, and find The USB audio driver and extract this
driver to The Drivers folder.
USB headsets is excellent sound device standard and it is also
compatible with Windows7 or Windows8. This phynancial investition to
this device is really good and You can use this device from standard
installed Windows operating systems, from specially prepared live PE
environments and many Linux distros are fully compatible with USB
headsets.
When You will have necessary driver files extracted to The drivers
folder, You can extract The folder name to The driver folder which
represents The name of Yours USB headsets device, it will work.
Now is The time to extract The NVDA portable to The root of Yours USB
stick.
Yes, it is all.
Yours USB headsets and may be also other sound devices, if there will be
less than 10 driver files, it is very probably, that this sound device
will work, but The fact, if it will work or no is much more complex than
The fact, how many driver files is included in The drivers folder.
The one disadvantage of visually impaired user is, that You can not get
welcome sound which will inform You, that system have been executed.
User with quite laptops can listen The sound of integrated circuits or
YOu can use non cheap very sensitive radio reciever to detect The
special sounds of The computer.
You can wait 2 minutes or 3 and You will be sure, that The system is
ready.
Very important, plug in The USB headsets after starting Yours live CD,
in other case, sound device will not be autodetected.
It is also important to no, that You must know The first word letter of
The classic start menu item run in Yours native XP language to run NVDA.
Press The start button or CTRL+ESC
Press The first letter of The run command.
I Am writing nonsense, it is not The first letter of The word represents
The run command, Try to find The right letter Yourself.
Type
d:\nvda.exe
Press enter.
NVDA should be automatically loaded from USB stick.
Very important.
It is possible to run regedit remotely to edit Windows registry of The
NTFS volume, which is containing installed XP operating system.
I Am working on implementing other remote administration tasks,
aspecially to use system restore feature. You can also use specially
created Clamwin portable antivirus program awailable from
http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/portableapps/ClamWin%20Portable/Add...
The virus database contains more than one million 100000 virus
signatures.
You can use it from live PE projects for virus detection and even virus
removal process. Clamwin is fully NVDA compatible.
I wisch You many nice experiences with those projects.
_______________________________________________
Blind-sysadmins mailing list
Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins