Both my work and home PCs run Windows XP Pro SP3 with most fixes and the latest version of Window-Eyes, WE 7.11 currently.
I had noticed for a long time that my home PC was much more stable in terms of loss of speech issues than my work PC. The major differences between the 2 are hardware, home is a quad processor with 4GB RAM and work is a duo processor with 1GB RAM. AT work I generally run MS Outlook, Lotus notes, with several sessions running, and IE, with 2 sessions running. There will be other odd things going on as well. We recently upgraded to MS Office 7 at work, which I already had at home. There were a number of oddities going on. If I was using MS Word and then went back to Outlook I had lost the list of e-mails. I needed to stop and start Window-eyes to get my list back. I also had problems with Lotus Notes, where some lines would not be spoken or show on the Braille display at times. I have recently managed to persuade people here to install an additional 1GB of Ram into my PC. Guess what, The loss of speech seems to have been eliminated and the various oddities seem to have gone as well. I do not like to suggest this, but does Window-Eyes handle paging to the hard disc from memory correctly? In any case, the cost of memory is so small currently that folks may easily find a simple remedy is to install additional memory. Here in the UK 1GB for my PC at work is £14. I hope this is of help. Regards, John. John Farley Service Delivery Manager Downstream Applications SAIC Ltd Hemel One, Boundary Way, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 7YU UK Phone : +44 (0) 1442 227731 Mobile : +44 (0) 7785 928755 Fax : +44 (0) 1442 227601 Support: +44 (0) 1442 227777 E-Mail: [email protected] *********************************************************************** SAIC Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 1396396. Registered office at Hemel One, Boundary Way, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP2 7YU. VAT number 599 5474 64. This e-mail and any attachments are private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of its contents is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately and then delete it (including any attachments) from your system. All emails and attachments are virus scanned. It is your responsibility to ensure that any onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect your or the onward recipients' systems or data. Please carry out such virus and other such checks as you consider appropriate. SAIC Limited may monitor email traffic data and, also, the content of email for the purposes of security, staff training and compliance with SAIC policies. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
