[jaws-uk] Re: Speeding boot-up time
- From: "Keith" <k.clyde@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:16:47 +0100
Good afternoon Phil,
I appreciate what you have said. I guess we are all looking for our PCs to
boot up speedily, so I'll take a very careful look at programs that
start-up.
Thank you again.
With best wishes,
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Medway
Sent: 05 September 2008 13:08
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Speeding boot-up time
Another thing you might wish to look at in order to speed up boot time is
the startup sub-menu in programs from the start menu.
Startup contains shortcuts to applications which are loaded at boot time in
order to make them readily available when they are required. The trade off
for this, of course, is that the time for them to load is added to the boot
up time rather than when the application is actually called.
This is fine if you need to use something like MSWord regularly and need
quick access to it but far too many applications, in my opinion, place
shortcuts in startup and loading all of them just to make them quicker to
access helps to fill up your memory. Additionally, if the memory fills up,
virtual memory has to be used which is just an overflow technique used in
the background by the system involving writing parts of the content in
memory to the hard drive and reading it back again when required. This
procedure is much slower than using actual memory.
There may well be things in the startup which are necessary to keep there
but applications such as Adobe's Acrobat reader and Microsoft Word are not,
in my humble opinion, essential at boot time.
If you do decide to investigate the startup contents, be careful not to
remove anything which you are not certain of but remember that the startup
items are only shortcuts and not actual applications so removing them will
not uninstall an application.
You can find the startup sub-menu at:
start menu / programs and pressing the letter s until you hear the word
start up sub-menu. Cursor right once to open the sub-menu then navigate the
list of shortcuts. Selecting one then pressing the applications key or
right clicking will give you a menu from which you can choose to delete the
item.
Finally, remember the warnings in this mail.
Regards,
Phil Medway
E-mail: philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: 01869 347639
Mobile: 07980 519990
Skype: philmedway
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:47 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Speeding boot-up time
Keith, you are probably only talking a few seconds here. If your PC is
taking a few minutes to boot the problem may be connected with something
more serious. If the PC is only taking a minute or so to boot then my
advice would just be leave well alone as the difference is unlikely to be
that noticeable.
If time to boot up is really crytical you could try putting the PC into
hybernation rather than doing a standard shut down. The PC will boot
quickly but this can sometimes have a negative affect on screenreaders such
as JAWS. On some machines problems happen after standby or hybernate Modes
where items in lists and other things are not quite read properly. You
would just need to try it and see.
Regards
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <k.clyde@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jaws Group (Jaws Send Message)" <Jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:23 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Speeding boot-up time
> Good morning all,
>
> Using Jaws 9 with Windows XP Home.
>
> I've been reading an article in PC Answers magazine for September.
>
> The article is concerned with cleaning the computer, and speeding
> boot-up time.
>
> One of the recommendations is as follows:
>
> Windows has dozens of fonts that you probably never use. Slimming
> these down speeds up disk access, resulting in a faster boot.
>
> These fonts are evidently in:
> c:\Windows\Fonts
>
> Before I remove any of these, can anyone please tell me, are
> particular fonts more important to Jaws than others? Or, is it safe to
> remove nearly all of them?
>
> I see there are 95 fonts in the list.
>
> From a visual point of view, I only use speech and braille, and my
> wife only needs the screen when I get stuck, and she needs to help me
> out.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> With many thanks.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Keith
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