Troy,
Processor speed will make a big difference with Jaws performance. You can
determine the processor you have by going into the Control Panel and then
open the System applet. On the main page, you can use the Jaws cursor to
review the information on the screen. One of the items listed will be the
processor make, model and speed. If the processor speed is less than
1.0Ghz, then versions of Jaws after version 5.1 will not perform well.
Also, the number of programs running in the background will also impact Jaws
performance as well as your computers overall performance. Review all of
the programs running in the system tray using Jaws key plus F11. Close any
programs that you know you never use.
Also, some anti-virus programs consume significant processor resources. The
most processor intensive are Symantec, McAfee and AVG. If you are running
any of these, you may want to consider switching to Microsoft Security
Essentials, which is very light on processor utilization. And make sure
that you are not running more than one anti-virus program.
And even though adding the additional memory did not fix the Jaws problem,
it will positively improve your overall computer performance.
You should also make sure that you have the latest driver software for the
sound device on your computer.
There are many reasons for sluggish Jaws speech and hopefully one of the
items I listed above will help with your particular situation.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Sullivan" <[email protected]>
To: "jaws list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:01 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws sluggishness and upgrading your pc
Hi all,
I'm one of the ones that has jaws slugglishness on my pc. tech support
thought it was a bug or spyware but I don't have any of those. Today I
read a message on the list about upgrading the memmory on your pc. I did
have the ram upgraded to 2 gb and having the same issue, now how do I know
what else to upgrade on this pc so that I don't spend money on something
that's not really needed. This is a dell pc, win xp home. Not sure what
type of processor I have or anything like that.
Troy
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