Thanks George but as I have no screen output, a sighted person is worse off then me... However does give me another place to have a nose about in. ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bell To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:15 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws-vista and Registary cleaners... I suspect you may need some sighted assistance here. To resolve the Video problem, you may need to boot up into what is called "Safe Mode" when you will have no speech. However, by looking at Control Panel, System, it should be possible to identify what component of your system is causing the failure. With any luck, it may be as simple as corrupted drivers, which in turn can be reinstalled. However, as I say, this is a process for a sighted person. On the boot up issue, this is probably due to Vista's rather comprehensive Indexing of your system. It is supposed to make searching faster, but personally I have my reservations and so I have turned off disk drive indexing on my own system. George. From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Mansworth Sent: 22 December 2008 08:27 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Jaws-vista and Registary cleaners... Hi folks, Using Jaws9.0.519 and Vista Home Premium. I am finding that my PC is taking longer and longer to start-up and "Jaws", is still having a gurgling fit between 5 to 15 minutes after it has loaded, sometimes lasting for some 5 minutes. I tried previously suggested fixes, those being checking applications being loaded at start-up and all those were Windows programmes which I was cautious about changing the status of. I already delete Temporary Internet files nearly on a daily basis and with Vista there is a "defragmenting schedule set, so when I tried the "defrag", suggestion , it stated it was not required. I couldn't find the uncheck "stereo enhancement", suggestion but that is not unusual for me. However, I have now lost output to my monitor! Not a problem for me but to my sighted wife renders the PC unusable( No, she can't cope with Jaws). checking "Problem reports & solutions", via the Control panel. It seems I have had a "Blue screen error", which when first I noted it, it said it was due to "Real Player". I rarely ever use that prog, so maybe caused by an auto update.... When I try to check for a solution it just says "No new solution", and/or "researching". This is now getting annoying! Reading up on "Blue screen error", I have come across numerous sites stating this can be caused by problems with "Windows register", and suggestion a "cleaning/repair" software required. There seem to be many such software and many sites stating that one is better then the other but nearly all claim to improve performance and my start-up problem as well. Mind, most state is "Free", to download but the free part being just the scanning part of the software and the important bit being the repairing part needing to be purchased. Again, just finding out the cost seems to be last bit of info to be divulged normally at the end of the installation process.... Has anyone used such a cleaning/repair programme, was it successful and how user friendly was it with "Jaws"? Any help would be gratefully received Mark.