Hi All,

Well, after refusing to talk for a couple of days, my HP laptop has 
decided to come back to life. It probably resented going into the box 
for a return. I pulled it out today to give it one last try before 
taking it back, and today it worked just fine.

I turned off the touchpad by going into mouse settings, tabbing over to 
the search box and typing, "clickpad," then pressing enter on the 
disable option. The nice thing is that this touchpad seems to turn off 
completely. The one on my Acers would turn back on whenever I touched 
certain parts of it.

I haven't gone into the bios with sighted help to get my F1 to F12 keys 
back. That's next on the agenda.

I still haven't figured out how to turn off Cortana. Somehow I managed 
it on my desktop and tablet, but I don't remember what I did. When I've 
googled, I've read that I need to go into settings, but I haven't found 
anything there that has anything to do with searches or Cortana. I've 
also read that you open Cortana, click on the notebook and access the 
settings from there. Through some trial and error, I've found the famous 
Cortana Notebook, but I haven't found her settings. Does anyone know how 
to turn her off so she searches my computer, not the web?

also, I'm having trouble putting This PC on the desktop. You're supposed 
to right-click on a blank area of the desktop, then choose an option 
(Themes I think), which, in turn, gives you This PC as an option. In the 
past, I've done this with NVDA by pressing alt+Home on the desktop, then 
pressing the applications key. This time, I'm not able to do that. Jaws 
17, NVDA 2015.3 and Narrator--all think I'm on whatever icon I was on 
last. so they give me properties, etc., for that icon, not for the blank 
desktop. This happens even when I use the computer's touch screen to 
find a blank place. Does anyone have any workarounds?

the HP is running Windows 10 and the latest Jaws, NVDA, and Narrator.

thanks for any wisdom.

Ciao


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