Hi Troy,
Sounds like it is a 2Ghz processor. That should be more than enough for
jaws to work with no sluggishness. I would have to guess that some program
or programs running in the background are causing the sluggishness. Without
doing a complete review of your system, it would be difficult to try and
pinpoint which program may be the culprit.
As I stated in my last reply, review the programs running in the System
tray. I have seen some HP and Samsung printer software found in the system
tray, to interferer with Jaws speech.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Sullivan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws sluggishness and upgrading your pc
Ok, on the processor there's one that says CPU 2.00 ghz and another one
that says 1.99 ghz. Is the 1.99 ghz the processor speed?
Troy
----- Original Message -----
From: "John M." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws sluggishness and upgrading your pc
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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