Hi Desiree, Yes, your sister should be able to figure out your processor type, speed, cache etc simply by looking at the bios. She's going to have to check your system requirements anyway because you can't just slap Windows 7 on just any old machine. Windows 7 needs a faster processor, more memory, and a better video card than XP just to start off.
As for User Account Control I've used Jaws 13 just fine with UAC so I'm not really sure where you are coming from when you talk about not having speech etc. I've not had that problem with Jaws 11, 12, or 13 on any Windows 7 computer I've used. Jaws is fully UAC compatible so it doesn't have to be turned off for Jaws sake. Are you running an out of date version of Jaws? As far as differences between 32-bit and 64-bit it isn't an issue of better graphics. There are a lot of differences under the hood such as how much ram it supports, what size hard drives it supports, how big the files are it supports, and things like that. Its not necessarily something you as an end user will notice, but there are technical differences to be aware of. For example, the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will only recognize up to 4 GB of ram. That is pretty decent for the average user, but let's say you want to handle a number of virtual machines or something and put in 8 GB or 12 GB of ram. You'll need a 64-bit version of Windows 7 which supports up to 128 GB of ram for that. As I said something like that isn't likely to effect the average user, but could be important to some people. Cheers! On 9/22/12, Desiree Oudinot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > You know what, to be honest, I dont know about the processor. Is there > any way my sister can check that, maybe in the bios, before she > reformats? Because as of right now, the computer completely refuses to > start. I think it has a virus. > That's good to know that most of the games I would want to play do in > fact work. I'm guessing that there really isn't much of a difference > between 32 and 64 bit systems, then, besides improved graphics and > performance. But I definitely did plan to turn off Uac. As you > probably know, Jaws won't work with that at all, and its very > annoying. So you have to play the guessing game even when you try to > disable it since that dialog comes up and Jaws doesn't speak, so you > kind of have to tab and hit buttons until you turn it off, which you > won't know until you're returned to Windows anyway since you have no > speech during the process. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
