[jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
- From: Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:01:21 -0400
I usually find that such slowly increasing sluggishness is accompanied
by the notable increase in memory usage of either JAWS or the sluggish
application. You can use the Task Manager's Processes tab to figure
out what's getting bigger. Restarting that program, JAWS or Word in
this case, may help with the sluggishness.
This is a marginal question for a scripting list, but I thought a few
scripters might also want to know the Task Manager trick. It may be
able to help identify whether sluggishness is caused by script
inefficiency, a JAWS problem, or an application memory leak. If the
application keeps getting bigger but does not do so when JAWS is not
running, it very well could be an application memory leak in
accessibility code.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:24:00AM +0100, Cearbhall O Meadhra wrote:
Dear Everett,
Good morning to you! Thank you for your support. It's a comfort to know that
I am not the only one with this problem! I have tried saving the file but
that does not help. I have also deleted the normal template and that does
not help. Hence I think it must have to do with the Word scripts.
The problem lies uniquely with MS Word and when I switch to the desktop or
Outlook JAWS behaves quite normally.
By the way, I forgot to mention that JAWS eventually freezes for up to a
minute or does not recover at all.
One technique I have for getting JAWS back to life is to run Narrator! This
seems to wake JAWS up and then I can exit Narrator. However, even this does
not work when JAWS has got lost and remains silent.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Sent: 14 April 2009 08:11
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: MS Word slowing downwith JAWS
Good evening,
This isn't really the list to discuss such issues, as the list is primarily
for JAWS scripting support.
Howver, I have also experienced this from time to time with MS Word and JAWS
9. I found that saving the document normally fixed the problem.
HTH,
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On 14-Apr-09, at 4:04 AM, Cearbhall O Meadhra wrote:
> Dear Scripters,
>
> Lately I have been doing a great deal of writing using MS Word. I am
> preparing assignments at the end of a training course. Sometimes I can
> be writing for up to 8 hours without a break!
>
> After a few hours, I find that JAWS takes more and more time to let
> the cursor move from word to word within the text in the word
> document.
> This
> gets so bad after a while that I reboot in a desperate effort to get
> back to a normal speed of response.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> By the way, I am using
> JAWS 9.0.515
> Windows XP service Pack 2
> HP PC
> hard disk: 41.3gb used space 33.14 gb free space I have run disk
> cleanup and defrag
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Cearbhall E. O'Meadhra
>
> BLBC Bray life and business Consulting
>
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