[blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?

[Laura Wolk]

I have had to upgrade my work laptop for this reason.  Google Chrome
is a massive memory hog as well.  I've found that having too many
Chrome tabs open and Jaws at the same time can cause a weaker machine
to crash.

On 6/10/21, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I use neither program. However, it could be a memory issue. If you have
> multiple assistive software running, Word docs, browsers, and email, that
> can be quite demanding on the system. I have always added more memory to
> help with the demands put on my work laptop, and I try to buy personal
> laptops with generous solid state memory for the same reason.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Teresita Rios via
> BlindLaw
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:45 PM
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> Cc: Teresita Rios <teresitarios22 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?
>
> [EXTERNAL]
>
> I often get blue screens and lose some of what I was working on.
> Sometimes I exit ZoomText and restart it, but just two nights ago I was
> working on a mini note for a competition and it stopped working three times
> during the night, and crashed or a blue screen appeared right before I
> wanted to turn my materials in. Do you think it is my Dell?
> Is there anything I can do?
> I take timed final exams and in all of them it just blue screened, and I had
> to force restart it.
> I lost half of legislation and regulation. The good thing is that I save as
> soon as I finish a paragraph so for the others I lost time and not much
> material.
> Do you think that i also becaus I have a lot of Word docs opened at the same
> time?
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:27 PM Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Teresita,
>>
>> What do you mean by crashing? The more specific, the better. I may
>> have had similar issues. In my case, it appears to be JAWS and NVDA
>> being incompatible with the graphics drivers on my Dell laptops. The
>> more I read, the more JAWS and NVDA lag, until they finally crash and
>> take the Windows environment with them. The problem happens with two
>> different machines with the same drivers and operating system, and it
>> only started happening after a Windows update sometime last year. The
>> only solution for me has been to restart my screen-reader before it
>> crashes.
>>
>> Warmth,
>> Sanho
>>
>> On 6/10/21, Teresita Rios via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> > Hello Friends.
>> > This past year my computer started crashing a lot and acting glitchy.
>> > finals were horrible. Have any of you had this constant crashing
>> > problem with ZoomText and Fusion? Who did you contact? Because at
>> > school they say my computer has the IO and hardware to handle it. so we
>> > are lost.
>> >
>> > Thank you!
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