Hey Rick,
I strongly suggest
Keeping away from windows 8.1.
My Dell specs are at the end of this email.
I am quite happy with my windows 7 home premium system
It has some problems with losing sound,, which is a known issue with all
windows platform,
but usually gets resolved by just plugging and unplugging a usb speaker.
Here is some food for thought.
I have a friend who is using WE8.4 with a
mac mini with a dual
boot into windows 7.
He finds it to be more stable than his dell xps.
My Dell specifications: Window Eyes 8.4, Dell xps420 Windows 7 home
premium, with dual boot to windows 8.1, with start8 from:
www.stardock.com with 8 gb RAM, Intel q6600 quad core drivers and
software updated software recommended: Firefox, Thunderbird, Win Patrol,
Roboform, On 5/16/2014 8:08 AM, RickUSA wrote:
Good luck, Manny
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performance to your friends, or Tweet or Facebook it.
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Hi WEErs: New xps 8700ac kept locking up.
After 14 hours on phone with support? I decided on last day of return
policy to send
this puppy back.
We never nailed down what caused the lockups. Could have been audio
drivers not playing
well with Screen Readers, tried jaws, windoweyes and even narrator so
not a WE problem as far as I could tell.
Dell removed some junkware, replaced the video driver they said was
causing the problem,
removed some of dells software for digital downloads and eventthe
backup and recovery
software, nothing helpped.
They ran many tests saying the hardware was all good.
There were many errors in the event loggs and the final nail was that
internet explorer
11 had to restart and then a lockup and in the event log there was a
problem with
a dll related to internet explorer.
The Reps also said they were getting intermittant breaks in the
connection when trying
to remote so who knows?
Could be anything but I cant pay a grand for a new boat anchor so back
it went.
Now I have to start the new computer search all over again.
This time I am going with a business system, better components and
hopefully more
stable software. Perhaps I will go w7 Pro instead of 8.1 Consumer version.
I just dont know anymore what will work with a screen reader without
worrying about
potential conflicts or even if that had anything at all to do with all
the errors
and lockups - neither did the dell techs and there were many, many of
them over the
14 hours plus of phone calls.
If you run a recent machine, desktop with WE, and it has worked well
for you what are you
running?
Are there errors in the event loggs?
HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus or others?
And which OS do you find most stable with WE - that is W7 Pro or even
W 8.1 (Pro?)
Rick USA
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