Hi Bill, I have never heard of the system manager you are using, but that isn't all that strange, since I rarely use extra utilities on my computer, short of spyware and anti-virus software.
The hotkey I was referring to is the hotkey of ctrl+alt+delete. This will bring up the Window's Task Manager. Once in the task manager, you can check out the system resources that are being used up, you have to do this with the Jaws cursor, since the information isn't accessible with the regular PC cursor If you ctrl+tab over, you can check out the applications you are running at that given moment, and if you keep ctrl+tabbing over, you will eventually get to the running processes tab. This identifies all the programs, utilities and drivers that may be running at that precise given moment. You can go through this list, and see what's running and what isn't. If there is something that you don't understand, like a file name or information on the process, try virtualizing the window by hitting ctrl+shift+W, and then copying the particular line to the clipboard, then shifting over to Google, and pasting it in there. Make sure you put quotes around it, otherwise you will not get helpful results. Alternatively, you can search on Google for the file name, and it will usually bring up some really good information on the file and process, once you get through the tons of stuff there to entice you to buy process detectors, or in other words, the sponsored links. Anyway, please pay heed to my earlier message about the part that you may see when searching for a particular process on Google, that you don't listen to any site that tells you what should be running and what shouldn't, because what a sighted user may think is not necessary to run, Jaws may think otherwise, and quit altogether on you. Another thought I had after I typed and sent my last message, is that you might want to check out what is being started up in your MSCONFIG file. You can get to this dialog box by going to the start menu, then pressing the letter R and typing in msconfig in the resulting dialog box. In this MS Config dialog box, you can edit the system.ini, win.ini, your start-up file, and specify what you want to run and what you don't when Windows starts up. You can also edit the processes running from this dialog box also. You might want to make sure that you go through this and see if there's something running in the background that isn't suppose to. For example, I once went through my MS Config file, and when I tabbed over to the processes tab, I found a Live Sex Chat line thingy running in the background, and it was always trying to dial out on my phone line, and I didn't think my computer doing that was all that weird since I was on dial-up at the time. Anyway, you can see where I'm going with this. You could always check your system to see what's running in the background, at least once per month, as a precaution. I must warn you, this isn't really a precaution, in that by the time you find it in here, it's already in there, and all you can do is find it on your system, and delete it. Anyway, Hope this helps. Victor Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
