Here is what I have heard causes that. Every time you open a new file, and
close down an old one, it does not close the dll file, and it opens a new
one, so every so often, the only way aparently out of this is to shut down
windows, and start it over again.
At 01:10 AM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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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