well, you don't have any services to worry about then, just things that go bump at start up and you can find some of them in the start up folder of program files and others in the system tray and usually, yu an disable stuff from its application rather than using ms config. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caitlyn McFarland" <ladylavendar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:06 AM Subject: Re: tuning your pc to eliminate stuttering from Jaws: thanks David. I'm running windows 98, have 512 megs of ram, using jfw 4.51.1138 with eloquence. Cait ----- Original Message ----- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "jfw users email list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:51 PM Subject: tuning your pc to eliminate stuttering from Jaws: > I'm going to make two assumptions: > 1> you are running windows xp; > 2> you have a sound card that is adaquate for your task and a solid pc. > > The problem of stuttering results when the pc is trying to do too many > things with too little work space. To fix this, go to services in xp and > disable any services you don't need or at least set them to manual. There > are lots of places to find out what the services are and what they do. > > Find out what is in your system tray and decide whether or not it is > something you have to have running. All the player stuff can go. Anti > virus and firewall stuff needs to stay. any stuff that just sits there so > you can start a program faster can go. In some instances, you can right > click on an item in the systray and find the configuration and fix it there. > Some times, you'll need to go into the program its self and find its > preferences/options/configuration controlls and do it there. The key is to > manually go through this and set it up so that you don't have to set it up > again if something causes it to relaunch as it might if you use msconfig or > use ms config and do a system restore or install another program that > decides it needs to load something. Another thing that happens with ms > config is that if you update the application, the settings that are made > through ms config are not retained. > > > Johnnie Apple Seed > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx