I disagree. There is alot that goes on in the bios and this is specific
to each brand. also choices in hardware can make a big difference in how
well a system works. Otherwise you would just buy the cheapest one you
could find and it would be fine.
I have owned Quantex, Gateway,Dell, HP, Asus, Sony, Lanovo, Alienware
and built PCs with Asus, Gigabyte, Azroc, Foxcon, MSI, Micro and others
I cant remember.
They all had quirks and benifits to each. Never liked HP.
On 9/22/2017 11:36 AM, Steve wrote:
It really has nothing to do with the manufacturer of a laptop. I have
owned three HP laptops over the years; as well as Acer and Averatec's.
For the most part, a laptop is a laptop; they mainly vary in how the
keyboard is layed out.
*CONSIDERATIONS*
Most manufactuers install a lot of "bloatware" on the laptop. When you
got it, did you get rid of all that extra crap?
You could start with a program like PC DeCrapifier.
Have you made sure you don't have conflicting anti-virus programs
running? Again, a lot of manufacturers include trial anti-virus
programs. Uninstall them if you're not going to use that particular
one; most of them supply McAfee or Symantek.
Third, look at your bootup programs. Open the Msconfig program and go
to that list. Uncheck things you don't need to necessarily run at
start-up. Many programs that you install think they need to run at
start-up, it isn't wholely necessary. Example: you don't really need
Dropbox or Microsoft Office etc. running at startup. You do, of
course, want your anti-virus, various windows services, and of course,
Jaws to run.
As somebody else mentioned, you can find websites to help you identify
programs and/or processes that you can then consider not being necessary.
After you make adjustments in your MsConfig file, you need to enable
"selective startup" so that only those items you designated will run
at start-up.
As somebody else mentioned, if you had a dual-boot setup, you will
have a delay that they specified so you can choose which operating
system you wanted to start with.
It may also make a difference if you have a regular disk drive (not a
solidstate drive), to clean it (get rid of unnecessary and temporary
files), then take a look at the defragmentation report to see if you c
ould gain some efficiencies by de-fragging your disk.
This won't affect boot-up times, but it will speed up your access.
When you shutdown, you could choose to put your laptop in Sleep mode
rather than completely shutting it down. This will put your currently
open programs and windows into memory, so that when you wake it up,
all you need to do is enter your password and you'd be up and running
again.
And, as a last resort, sometimes you just get so much garbage in the
installation of windows and programs, that just doing a clean
re-install of windows and restoring your programs and files after that
would be an option. To me, it's a pain in the butt, so the slow
boot-up times would really have to bother me to do that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "cheez" <ch...@cox.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange occurrence turning on the computer
I have the latest version of JAWS. But I'm beginning to think a
friend of mine was correct when I told him I was getting a new HP
laptop.
he said, "I don't like HP. They suck."
Vince
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Pearson" <dpears...@wi.rr.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange occurrence turning on the computer
My computer started to take a long time to start up after I went
from window eyes and installed Jaws 18.
At 10:41 PM 9/21/2017, you wrote:
Laura, you are lucky your computer is ready to use so quickly.
Mine takes almost 2 minutes before I hear, "JAWS Home Use." Drives
me nuts!
Vince
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Richardson"
<laurak...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 3:50 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Strange occurrence turning on the computer
Hello,
Jaws 18 and Windows 10 ..
Normally when I turn the computer on I wait approximately 10 to 20
seconds
and then Jaws will say "Jaws home use" and I'm ready to go.
Yesterday, when I turned the computer on after about 5 or 10
seconds Jaws
said "Jaws for windows, overlay windows zero, overlay windows
zero, overlay
windows zero". Then, after another 5 or 10 seconds Jaws said
"Jaws home
use" and I was ready to go.
I've had this computer for almost four months and this has never
happened.
Has anybody experienced anything like this and is this something
to be
concerned about? Thanks for any input.
Laura
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