Hi Duane,
If you're running Jaws 17 and there are no other factors which would prevent you from upgrading, go for it. Back in December of last year I got really curious about the upgrade and I was tired of seeing the little Windows 10 widget in the system tray so I took the plunge. When I started the process, I was told that there were no major incompatibility issues, so my only reservation about the upgrade was whether or not I'd be able to do it without sighted assistance. Tkrns out that that wasn't an issue at all. I'd scheduled the upgrade to occur starting about 11 p.m. And figured that the system might reboot a time or two while I was sleeping and that it should be done when I got up the next morning. I woke up at around 2:30 a.m., and curiosity got the better of me, so, knowing that Jaws wouldn't be running, I pressed Windows+Enter to start Narrator, and discovered that there was a dialog of some sort asking me to confirm some settings. After clicking Next or Continue, the machine went silent, did its thing and I went back to sleep. Next morning, while my wife was cooking breakfast, I checked the machine again, started Narrator and discovered that the upgrade was finished, so I ditched Narrator, started Jaws and all was well, or so I thought. There were two issues to deal with. First, I had to update my HP printer driver, which was pretty easy to do, then download and install the latest Open Book build so that it could see the Pearl camera. Once that was done the system ran like a top, and, aside from having recent issues with a funky wireless router, I've been happy with Windows 10 on this Toshiba laptop ever since. I should point out at this juncture that I didn't install the upgrade from any installation medium; everything was done essentially through Windows Update. Although I could have and should have, I didn't back up my data beforehand, so I was gambling in a big way, but I got lucky.
I relate my story here to let you know that the upgrade really is fairly painless, so go ahead if you want to. In fact, I felt comfortable enough about it that I upgraded my wife's machine just after finishing with mine, and that, too went off without a hitch. You may want to do a little prep beforehand to see if you might need any driver updates and so on, and back up critical data just in case instead of doing everything on the fly, as I did. Hope this helps you. Happy upgrading!
Best regards,
Tom
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> On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Duane Farrar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I would just like a clarification as to why, as a user of the latest version of JAWS running Windows 7, I would not want to upgrade to Windows 10 at this time? What is the accessibility issue? It sounds like some members on the list have done the upgrade an some haven't.
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> Thanks,
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> Duane
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