Re: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home

  • From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:52:02 -0400

As a test I just auto started Jaws and I have the same thing. I still have 
some vision so I can see that Jaws is one of the last things loaded. But 
normally I don't start Jaws till everything else is loaded anyway because if 
I do it uses the wrong sound card.



Thanks; Gene

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home


> Hi guys
> Again there appears to be some confusion on this issue so let me further
> explain.  As previously stated, or maybe I didn't so let me do it now, I
> have the automatically start JAWS check box checked under options/basic
> settings.
> I also have the run jaws from system tray check box checked in that very
> same dialogue.
> If, for example, I've had to unload JAWS with insert plus f4 to play a 
> game
> it unloads fine, and when I restart it, it starts up very quickly.  What
> seems to take forever on my system is that *initial* startup of JAWS. In
> other words, when my computer is booting up, JAWS appears to not start as
> quickly as it did in previous versions. I first hear the windows  xp
> startup sound, and then it could be anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds before
> JAWS speaks the good old, "JAWS For Windows is ready" message. In previous
> versions such as 5.0 and 5.01 and even before that, it didn't seem to take
> as long for JAWS to load and start speaking as it does now.  From what 
> I've
> been told, if you have automatically start jaws checked, which I do, then
> JAWS is run as a service.  I guess there's not a lot I can do, other than
> to possibly take a few other programs out of startup and see if that 
> solves it.
> I hope i've explained things so everyone understands.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 09:08 PM 6/4/2005, you wrote:
>>It may also help that I don't automatically load at startup.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks; Gene
>>
>>On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
>>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:06 PM
>>Subject: Re: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home
>>
>>
>> > Running it from the sys tray is irrelevant in this particular case, but 
>> > it
>> > does appear you can get JAWS running earlier if you use a hot key.
>> >
>> > Bruce
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
>> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Gene wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am running mine from the system tray on a hot key. When I hit the 
>> >> hot
>> >> key
>> >> after startup it will load in about 10 to 20 seconds. BTW that's 6.1.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks; Gene
>> >>
>> >> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "serrebi" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 8:16 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> jaws takes about a minute and a half  to load up on my machine when I
>> >>> boot.
>> >>> Got a rather fast cable connection to the net, 5mbit/1mbit, why it 
>> >>> would
>> >>> take that long to varafy a lisence I have no idea.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: "Lucia Greco" <lucy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 4:58 PM
>> >>> Subject: RE: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi:
>> >>>> you already are running Jaws is a service if you have the run Jaws
>> >>>> first
>> >>>> checkbox checked.
>> >>>> The reason draws 60 is taking longer and longer to boot is that the 
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> Internet
>> >>>> authorization is checking for valid authorization every time it 
>> >>>> started
>> >>>> freedom says they know about this but have not given any word as to
>> >>>> when
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> it
>> >>>> will be fixed. I have seen it slow machines down as much as a minute
>> >>>> and
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> a
>> >>>> half.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> Behalf
>> >>>> Of Chris Skarstad
>> >>>> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:01 AM
>> >>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>>> Subject: running JAWS 6.0 as a service in windows xp home
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi folks
>> >>>>
>> >>>> For a while now, I had been noticing that it was taking JAWS 6.0 a =
>> >>>> longer=20
>> >>>> time to run when the computer starts.
>> >>>> .  I do have a bit of usable vision, and from what I can determine, 
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> there=20
>> >>>> are a lot of programs that run before JAWS does, and it looks to me
>> >>>> like
>> >>>> =
>> >>>>
>> >>>> it's actually the very last thing to load.  So I have to wait while
>> >>>> all=20
>> >>>> these programs load, and I'm just wondering if there's any way I can
>> >>>> run
>> >>>> =
>> >>>>
>> >>>> JAWS as a service so that it'll run faster at startup?  AT least as
>> >>>> I=20
>> >>>> recall, that's what I believe will make it run sooner, rather than =
>> >>>> later.=20
>> >>>> Like I said right now, it's the last, if not one of the very last 
>> >>>> thing
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> to=20
>> >>>> start up, and I was curious as to what I could do to make things 
>> >>>> start
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> up a=20
>> >>>> little faster.  This has been happening ever since I installed JAWS 
>> >>>> 6 =
>> >>>> when=20
>> >>>> it first came out last december, but I could never quite put my 
>> >>>> finger
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> on=20
>> >>>> why it was just taking so long whereas before it was running a lot =
>> >>>> sooner.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I hope what I said makes some kind of sense?  This isn't like a huge 
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> deal=20
>> >>>> or anything, but I like to  make sure my computer starts up quickly 
>> >>>> so
>> >>>> =
>> >>>> I'll=20
>> >>>> have speech right away.
>> >>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>> >>>>
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