Me too, if you can change the virtual memory changes and apply them the
registry will reflect those changes. I have been running my machine
managing my own virtual memory for about 6 months now with no problem I can
attribute to that, in deed, Eloquence stutters much less and I rarely have a
crash any more. In general downloads from the Net are quicker and I no
longer get nervous about unexpected disk thrashing although that still does
happen occasionally. The best thing so far is those damn illegal operations
things have nearly disappeared.
I think I will go looking for some memory management software though, i do
find that the longer Windows operates without a restart the more sluggish it
gets, I really notice it with the speech from Eloquence, particularly in
Outlook Express, after CTRL-D to delete a message there will be a 5 second
or so delay just after JAWS announces the subject line and before the FROM:
line. If I restart Windows this usually goes away. I don't have any idea
what the processor is off doing but it certainly takes a holiday from
servicing the software synth. I have to think it results from RAM memory
leaks but I don't know for sure and have no idea how to trace it or fix it.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory and increasing performance
> I don't know about a registry change, but you need to do a defrag and
> scandisk in reverse order after making these changes either way. I
> have had the settings both ways and not noticed the behaviour you
> describe.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > After trying the actions suggested a week or so back regarding setting
> > the virtual memory size to 2.5 times the ram in the system, I began to
> > notice that jaws behavior became less reliable on my windows 95 machine.
> > A number of small, but annoying things suddenly occurred. And, I did
not
> > experienced any improvement in responsiveness at all. When I returned
> > the settings to their original values and restarted the machine, the
> > problems did not go away.
> >
> > Someone mentioned registry settings in windows 95 that might not be
> > returned to their original values as a result of this change. But, the
> > message was not clear as to exactly what one would need to look for in
> > the registry. Please post your comment again with more detail.
> > Things that no longer worked were, for example, alt+tab often does not
> > speak the task names. Menus in word simply speak the dialog box title
> > every time the tab key is pressed. All this used to work fine. And,
> > while I am not certain that it was the virtual memory change that cause
> > these things to go wacko, it is the only change I made to the system.
> > Any ideas? I look forward to any suggestions.
> >
> > Jim Snowbarger
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