----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io" <bglists=blueyonder.co.uk@groups.io>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] smart speaker

Could I just say that I have the echo dot, and you do need to bear in mind that to install one on your network you need a computer or smart phone with a wireless connection not a wired one.Although you can then run the alexa app on a pc with a wired connection to tweak it, in order to install the device on your network the pc or phone or tablet has to be able to see all wireless signals around including the Echo and your router.
As far as nvda is concerned, my one gripe with the pc alexa app is sluggishness when you type into the fields, ie it can take over a second to say a letter and if you have nvda set to echo you hear the letter twice. Also the tabs sometimes misbehave if they are a long list like skills or history and make it hard to know where you are. I think either nvda needs to look at this or Amazon does. I'm told its fine on mobile devices though.
Brian

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Mehta via Groups.Io" <lauriemehta=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Cc: "Kerryn Gunness" <k_gunness@yahoo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] smart speaker


Hi Kerryn,
Please feel free to write to me off list since this is off topic for the NVDA list. I have both the Amazon device and the Google device-- gifts from my children-- and will gladly answer your questions about either of these devices if that will be helpful for you.
-Laurie Mehta

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On Sun, 6/10/18, Kerryn Gunness via Groups.Io <k_gunness=yahoo.ca@groups.io> wrote:

Subject: [nvda] smart speaker
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2018, 6:35 PM








hi all
so i am think about smart
speakers
which one would u all
recommend
1 echo dot
2 google home
3 google mini
or others
thanks

----- Original Message -----

From:
Howard
Traxler
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Sent: Sunday, June
10, 2018 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda]
password
remover



Sorry folks, I know this
does not relate to NVDA,
but it's my response to Kerryn.
Kerryn,


Here is a solution to the
password problem that I
have found. Others here who are much wiser than I
will not recommend it
and I have not tried it yet; but I think I'm going
to. The software that
you download will create a bootable CD that one would used
to boot the
computer in question. A program, supposedly, comes
up that allows you to
do things with your password. One of them is to
remove it.

It's kind of a last
resort thing for me; but it's
the only way I will be able to access this computer.
Others say to
reinstall windows; but I don't know of a computer
today that comes with an
install CD. I assume there are many packages of this
type; but the one I
downloaded can be found at:

https://www.isumsoft.com/windows-password-refixer/

Good luck.

Howard

----- Original Message
-----
From:
Kerryn
Gunness via GroupsIo

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Sent: Sunday, June
10, 2018 6:06
PM
Subject: Re: [nvda]
password
remover


thanks
brian


----- Original Message
-----
From:
Brian
Vogel
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Sent: Sunday,
June 10, 2018 7:00
PM
Subject: Re:
[nvda] password
remover

Kerryn,


No, it will not.


Passwords exist for a reason: the
security of the owner and
their data. It is incumbent on those setting
passwords to do what
they require to have access to them if they cannot
remember them.
Password security (as in the ability to manipulate
them by the admin) has
gotten progressively tighter over the years, and for
good
reason.

In the case of a Windows
10 computer if one does not have the password you can
reinstall Windows
10. You can also extract data from the hard
drive using another
computer and connecting it as an external drive.

--

Brian

-

Windows
10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build
17134

Explanations
exist; they have existed for all time; there is always
a well-known
solution to every human problem — neat, plausible,
and
wrong.

~ H.L.
Mencken, AKA
The Sage of Baltimore