Friends:
FYI, the following link gives you the Microsoft life cycle for Windows
versions
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
If you click on the link that says "Microsoft support lifecycle FAQ" you
will be taken to Microsoft's lifecycle policy, but not further FAQs of the
sort one might expect.
We are already well past the main support dates for Windows 7.
However some support will be "extended" through 2020 for Windows 7.
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harry Brown
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 5:10 AM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] it's a miracle, folks, I'm back up and running, but I
have a huge anouncement
Hi all,
Well folks, I'm back up and running, thanks to my computer guy, who has
fixed my systems, for 7 years now, Rick Merkle, of merkle computers.
The problem was, Windows 10, completely, switched my audio, from my
computers sound card to the sound card built into the graphics card.
There was no way, that I could have fixed it. He could not even talk me
through it on the phone, because I had no speech, at all.
I am not the only person in the blind community who has gone through windows
10 stupidity.
My friend Brian, who has a different graphics card than I do, went through
it, and Becky, who is also on this list, went through it. It doesn't matter
what screen reader you're using, folks, windows 10, shuts off your sound
card, and switches your sound, to your graphics card, and we never had this
problem, in windows 7, or, in xp, etc.
Rick completely disabled the 2 sound card settings on my graphics card,
because you absolutely, have no way of doing it, without speech.
He told me, "Harry, please tell everybody in the blind community, I would
love to fix this problem, for good, just like I did yours, and, Brians, as
well.
Tell them, they can ship me their computers, and it only takes me 2 minutes
to make the fix perminent. All they have to pay is shipping, there and back,
and it's $60 to make the fix, but it is perminent, and they will never again
have this problem, unless they have to reinstall windows."
He loves helping us, and it's making him very angry that this is happening
to us and our computers, and we have only microsoft to blame.
And by the way, if you're still using, Windows 7, stop, immediately, and
upgrade to 10, because from a Kim Komando newsletter, "Microsoft ,as of
April 11, 2017, will no longer update Windows 7, or windows 8."
If you don't know how to do it, Rick can do that for you, as well. He
updated my computer to windows 10.
His number is, 810-689-7980. If he's not there, leave him a message, and he
returns phone calls. Just tell him, you heard about him through Harry, on
the vicug-l list, and you want your computer fixed so windows 10 does not
turn off your speech.
I cannot tell you the joy I feel right now, in being back on. I could not
have lived for 3 months with no computer to use. Everything, and I *MEAN
EVERYTHING in my life that I do is on that, computer. If I do it, it's on
the computer, and on my thumb drive.
So, if you don't want to do this stuff yourself, and you want someone to do
it for you, Rick is the man, had him for 7 years, and plan on it for years
to come, and no, I don't get paid by him, but when someone wants to help us,
and when that someone cares about the crap that Microsoft has done, that
affects us, those are the people I want to do business with!
Harry
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