I gave Advanced System Care 3 a try yesterday. I was about ready to
reformat my laptop and start over with a fresh Vista install! I have been
having network problems since Black Friday. I have had download speeds
between 70 and 500 kilobytes per second and upload speeds around 600
kilobytes per second! Our XP desktop, directly plugged into the router gets
over 2600 kilobytes per second. I still can not figure out whether my 9
month old laptop has a bad wireless card or the wireless portion of my 6
year old router is finally failing? Anyway, I tried to diagnose and
troubleshoot this problem last weekend. When simply running connection
diagnostics on the laptop wireless card, JAWS 10 simply stopped working! FS
and I tried everything we could think of all week. I even uninstalled every
software component from Freedom Scientific, including voices and training
material, and reinstall! JAWS 9, Magic 11 demo and NVDA all worked. JAWS
10 eventually worked at the login screen and in all other accounts, but not
in my main account. JAWS 10 was running, but was silent with any selected
voice profile! FS escalation Tech Support expert left the problem
unresolved by Friday. by the end, Vista would take over 10 full minutes to
Restart and display a message that it was shut down unexpectedly, even
though I selected Restart from the Start menu!
Back to the point, I tried out Advanced System Care 3 last night. It found
over 2000 registry problems which it repaired! I assume many of these are
simply removing history in their privacy screen. But after a few reboots,
JAWS 10 was working again and I no longer got unexplained Windows errors! I
am extremely happy with ASC right now! It seems pretty effective. As far
as I can tell, the free versions has all of the repair features as the paid
version. The paid version lets you uncheck features and keep certain
settings, such as IE passwords and form history data. I suppose I would
then be able to prevent it from changing my default email client to Outlook
instead of Windows Mail. It seems pretty powerful and may be worth
purchasing. The free version for routine maintenance might be like trying
fixing something with a sledge hammer. However, it is not very JAWS
friendly as some report. Only about half of the controls are accessible to
JAWS. The "Scan", "Repair", and "Stop" buttons are all located in the same
place on the screen. Only one is clickable at any point and I have not yet
figured out how to have JAWS tell which button is being displayed to the
sighted user at any moment. The JAWS Home Row Utility says that the buttons
are all visible at all times. I was able to use the program by running the
Magic 11 demo at 3x and press my nose directly to the screen. I still could
not read all the text in the list box, but I got the gist of each feature.
Unfortunately, I have never tried CCleaner. Perhaps, it could have repaired
my registry as well!?
By the way, my network is still behaving badly!
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] System care versus c cleaner
CCleaner is brillliant if you want an all in one, accessible hard drive
and registry cleaner. I installed it on my friend's laptop, and boy it
found a lot of junk! Over 250 MB of hard drive junk and over 500 registry
entries. I can tell you now her laptop's running just that little bit
faster now. I tried Advanced System Care, and, compared to version 2 I'm
not impressed.
--
Chris Hallsworth
E-mail: [email protected]
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Skype: chrishallsworth7266
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]>
To: "Jaws-Users-List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:56 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] System care versus c cleaner
I have been following the discussions over the last week or so primarily
about Advanced System Care but also the few comments a bout C Cleaner.
For
those that have used both which do you feel is better and why? I read
the
web page for C Cleaner and it doesn't sound as comprehensive as
Advanced
System Care. However, my understanding is it is more accessible
thanks
Al
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