What will happen is the system goes and checks your drive for errors. Note: this may take quite some time to perform, during which you will not have speech as your system is in a pre-windows state. When it finishes the system will restart on its own normally, so just turn up your speakers in case you are in another part of the house when that happens.
I've known it to take over an hour at the very least if not longer. So do it when you won't need your system for a while. David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Ford Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] disc performance When I press the start button for the disk error checking utility, Windows says it cannot do this until my next restart. If I do that, will it still give me speech, or is this something I will have to do on blind faith? If on faith, how do I know when the utility is done? Please advise, and much thanks, Tim Ford -----Original Message----- From: Mike Boyd Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] disc performance Sure Kevin, here you go. 1. Open Computer or in Windows 8.1, it is called This PC or File Explorer. 2. Highlight the disc in question, probably your C: drive. 3. Open the Context Menu by pressing the "APP" key between the Control and Windows logo keys on the right hand side of the space bar. If your keyboard does not have an Applications key, the menu can be opened by pressing Shift + F10. 4. Up arrow one time to "Properties", and press enter. 5. You will open onto the General tab. Tab down once or twice until you find the Disc Clean Up button, and open this by pressing the Space Bar or enter. 6. Simply follow the instructions to run the Disc Clean Up utility on your drive. This will clean up any unnecessary stuff on your drive. 7. When the Disc Clean Up finishes, close it, and then hold down the Control key and press the Tab key. This will take you to the Tools Tab. 8. Tab down once, and you will find the Error Checking Utility, and press enter on this to start the scan of your drive for any errors. 9. When finished with the Error Check Scan, tab down again to the Optimize and Defrag utility, and press enter to start this process. 10. Once inside the Optimize and Defrag utility, you will see that there is a list of drives to choose from, so arrow down to find the drive in question and stop on it. 11. After selecting your drive, notice what it says about the state of the drive, it will say that it has never been run, that is badly fragmented and neeeds optimizing, or that it is OK. It may say something else, but it is self explanatory. 12. If your drive needs optimizing, after tabbing once more, you will see the Analyze button, which you will need to press enter on. This will find the degree to which the drive is fragmented, and it should then comback and say that it is OK or that it needs optimizing. 13. If it needs optimizing, then by tabbing down one last time, you will find the optimize button, and press enter on it to optimize the drive. Once this finishes, you will get a report on the state of the drive after defragmenting is complete. 14. Now simply tab down to the close button and this will exit you out of This PC completely. Note: If a drive has any bad sectors on it, it cannot be totally defragmented to the 0 point. If this happens, and there are only a small number of bad sectors, then the drive should still perform well enough to run the computer. However, once the drive gets too many bad sectors, then it will be necessary to replace the drive. This is rare, but it does happen. In the last 10 years, I have replaced two drives in two different computers. I hope this helps you to get your disc back into the shape that you want it in, and if I can be of help again, just send me a message. Mike [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lee Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] disc performance Mike can you give me the steps again in more detail because when I use the windows defrag I just do a disc clean up then defrag which is two steps. you described more stuff, I don't quite understand. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
