[NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?

[Curtis Chong]

Hello Joel:

 

What you might ensure on your new computer is that nothing is running that
you don't want. On new computers that I have purchased in the past, I often
have to pay the supplier to remove what I affectionately call bloatware.
Lenovo is fortunately not guilty of as much bloatware as HP or Dell, but I
suspect something is running in the background that could just as well be
turned off. I am sorry to be so vague here, but barring additional
information, I am not able to be more specific.

 

On my system I turn off all of the widgets, and I am not using Co-Pilot.
Windows Phone is also not something that I care to run. Check your task
manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE) to see what processes are actually running.

 

Cordially,

 

Curtis Chong

 

 

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Subject: [NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?

 

Hi,

 

My Thinkpad T470 finally started showing signs of aging last summer. I
bought a Thinkpad Carbon last summer, and even though it has much better
specs than my older machine, it somehow feels slower than my faithful old
laptop. 32 GB RAM, I7 processor, plenty of SSD space, but somehow it feels
as though JAWS is more sluggish.

 

Specifically, JAWS seems to lose speech around the Office suite. It'll just
stop talking around certain items in the Ribbon. Sometimes it won't fully
rotate around open applications while using Alt Tab. If I'm in a Word file,
sometimes it'll read paragraphs while using CTRL + Up and Down Arrow,
sometimes it won't.

 

It's rather frustrating, because this is the machine where Outlook is
working well.

 

If anyone has thoughts on what settings I might adjust, I'd be grateful. The
machine is still too new for it to be dragging on me.

 

Kind regards,

 

Joe

 

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