Earlier this week, my laptop decided to %100 die on me.
It's been playing silly beggars with windows updates for about a year now, hassling me to update, then not starting up and forcing me to restar twith the power button, then hassling me some more, but since I only use it when I'm at my parents I didnt' worry too much.
However, last week it decided to completely go poof, and be unable to start, whereupon I had to take it to a nice local computer shop to have windows reinstalled. Really.
Being as it's a secondary machine anyway, I didn't lose anything at all that isn't replicated elsewhere (I'm always careful about backups).
however now this means I have a mostly blank copy of windows to deal with.
Narrator was about as much use as a chocolate teapot and much less tasty, failing utterly to work when I hit windows U (so much for Microsoft's great accessibility), so I'm going to have to install NVDA from scratch, as well as chrome, office and thunderbird before I even get around to fun things like games and such.
I know it is possible to create a portable copy of NVDA to run from a memory stick, but I was wondering if it was possible to create essentially a snapshot of all my addons etc to save time on installing.
I haven't really customised NVDA or messed with the settings beyond messing around with volume, speech rate etc, but the one thing I have done is install several useful addons, and it'd be nice to get those up and running a little more quickly without too many headaches.
Any further advice also much appreciated, particularly since I'll be needing that laptop rather a lot in the next few weeks due to my lady starting radiotherapy (of course, windows had to go poof at the most convenient time didn't it).
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)