It's been 5 years sinc I purchsed a computer, but I remember finding Norton
stored on my coputer. Even though it ws not being used, the fac that the
program was even installed was causing unexpected behaviors for my
computer. I had to get hep working with the registry and changing
permissions with registry keys to make things work properly. As I have said
in my other posts, be very carefuly when playing with your registry. You
thik you have problems now, your computer may turn into a complete disaster
if the wrong move is made--perhaps even needing to reinstall Windows. Good
luck.
-----Original Message-----
From: cheez
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:32 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange occurrence turning on the computer
Thanks, Steve for your suggestions. I'll check this stuff out.
As far as I know, I only have McAfee installed.
Vince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <pipeguy...@gmail.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange occurrence turning on the computer
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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