Hi.
If you're interested in throwing money at a problem like this, a solid
state disk is the answer. Other than that, just getting the boot process
to be more efficient is the key, but the challenge is knowing just what
is being inefficient about it. Some computers have a boot selection menu
that appears if the system has some sort of or has in the past had some
sort of dual boot capability. If this appears it'll wait for a good 30
seconds or so for you to pick the OS you want to start before it starts
up the default one, and this problem can be present even if it is no
longer dual boot capable.
If this is the issue, you can fix it either by removing the extra OS
(don't know how to do that on the top of my head), or go to run and type
msconfig. On the boot tab of the resulting screen, set the timeout to 5.
I wouldn't recommend setting it lower than 2 because it might make it
impossible to do certain recovery actions before the boot process
starts, and that's not desirable. So the idea here is to get the screen
to come up just long enough to be able to tap the right button or what
have you, but not long enough to lag the boot process moere than a few
seconds. Be careful in msconfig, there are plenty of intricate and
interesting ways to break things in there. Don't change anything you're
not positive you understand.
Cheers:
Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We
make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com";
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On 9/22/2017 9:56 AM, Tom Fairhurst wrote:
My computer had been starting slowly for a long time. I was having
trouble with Office 365, so I called the Microsoft Disability
Desk. The lady who helped me with Office 365 also helped me to speed
up my computer at startup by disabling a number of programs in
msconfig. I don't recommend looking at this lightly because doing so
without knowing what you are doing could keep your computer from
starting properly. once I understood what she was doing, things indeed
went much faster, even though I put back a few programs I wanted.
Thus, your issues may involve JAWS by itself, be in combination wwith
other programs, or not JAWS related at all.
-----Original Message----- From: David Pearson
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 6:27 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
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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