Hi. This message wasn't directed to me specifically, but I just checked tand I already have "Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration" disabled.
I'm following up with FS anyway. Thanks Phil -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike B Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and word 2013 sluggish problems Hi Al, Below is a note I've saved that might help. This helped me in Word 2010: From: Jean Menzies via Jfw Just thought I'd share this for those who want to try it. The symptom. I've often found sluggish performance in Word when searching, or when opening a second document. Jaws seems to either not be able to read a screen without refreshing, or, in searching, it would sometimes take two tries to get to the results. Just plain sluggish. In going through settings, I came across an option to "Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration". I checked that and things seem to be much more responsive now. I'll see how the day goes. But if anyone wants to do this, go into Options, Advanced, and the item is in there. If you use the, Alt + G keystroke, you'll get to it much quicker. From what I read on Google, if you change it in one MS program, it should affect all of them. Hey, I don't need graphics anyway. haha. Hope this works. Jean Note From Mike B.: My settings wouldn't stick until I checked the, prompt to update style, checkbox. To get to this checkbox the keystroke is, Alt + Y. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-hardware-graphics-acceleration-office -2013 article region start Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 Microsoft Office 2013 is great software for Windows 8 and I am guessing that quite a few of you may be using it on your system. This productivity suite contains many technologies in-built inside it and sometimes due to them an average computer has to suffer. If your facing this issues like crashing of Office components or not running properly and freezing every now and then or if they only works in Safe Mode of Office, then technology named Hardware Graphics Acceleration may be the culprit behind this. Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 I found that many users having issues with working of Office 2013 on your system are often advised to disable hardware graphics acceleration. Almost in all of the cases, disabling the hardware acceleration for graphics does the trick and solves issues for many. In this article, I'll show you how to disable hardware acceleration of graphics using the UI and of course, using my favorite Registry Editor. Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 Using UI 1. Open any Office 2013 component for example Word, and create a blank document, click FILE. How To Disable Hardware Acceleration In Office 2013 Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 2. Next, click Options in the following screen: How To Disable Hardware Acceleration In Office 2013 1 Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 3. Moving on, in the below shown window, select Advanced in the left pane. Then in the right pane, scroll down and look Disable hardware graphics acceleration under the section Display. Check this option and click OK. How To Disable Hardware Acceleration In Office 2013 3 Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 You may now close Office (Word) 2013 and reboot the machine. After restarting the system, you'll find the issues you were facing in Office is resolved now. Using Registry Editor 1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put regedit in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor. Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 2. In the left pane, navigate here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common How To Disable Hardware Acceleration In Office 2013 4 Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 3. Firstly create a subkey to Common by right click over it and select New -> Key. Name this subkey as Graphics. In the right pane of Graphics subkey, create a new DWORD by right click on blank space and select New -> DWORD Value. Name the newly created DWORD as DisableHardwareAcceleration and double click on it to get this: How To Disable Hardware Acceleration In Office 2013 5 Turn off Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office 2013 4. In the above shown box, change the Value data from 0 to 1. Click OK. Close the Registry Editor and reboot the machine to make changes effective. Let u know if dong this, helped you make Office run properly. Check out these posts too: list of 2 items . Disable Hardware Acceleration in Windows 8 completely . Disable Internet Explorer Hardware Acceleration. list end 4 Posted by KapilArya@TWC on September 8, 2014 , in Category Office with Tags Office 2013, Tips An Electrical Engineer by profession, Kapil is a Microsoft MVP in Windows - Consumer and a Microsoft Content Creator. He recommends that you create a system restore point first before tweaking the registry. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Robbins To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws and word 2013 sluggish problems Phillip, Sounds to me like part of the pause issue with jaws some of us are experiencing. I would suggest submitting a report to Freedom Scientific at: [email protected] They are closed today or you could call, but if you prefer to talk by phone you could call Monday. Personally, I like the email route for paper and documentation trail as the issue gets kicked up the ladder. They do want to hear about these issue to adequately fix. Al -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philip Hall Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws and word 2013 sluggish problems I am running Jaws 17.0.1214 on a 64-bit 3.2MHZ windows 7 ultimate system with 12 GB of ram. I am also running Word 2013. When I am typing for a period of time in word, suddenly without warning, Jaws will stop speaking. If I wait for bout ten seconds, , jaws will say the last key pressed. If I press another key, I have to wait another 10 seconds or so before that key is echoed. Eventually all the keys pressed will show up in my document. I am just wondering if this might be a jaws problem, or if there might be a setting within word that might have to be changed, possibly something to do with recovery? Also, if I attempt to save a large document first as a doc, and then as a text file, Jaws will crash and sometimes restart. Even after it restarts, sometimes Jaws will not respond and I must use narrator to finish saving my text file within word. This seems to happen with Jaws 17 and 16. Any clues would be great fully appreciated. Phil 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/
