[NFBCS] Anyone Else Using Lenovo ThinkPads?

[Alan K. Martinez]

I'm a big ThinkPad fan from the IBM days and now.

Lenovo does have bloatware on it.

On a fresh install or restore of the OS on a Lenovo system be it a
ThinkPad or IdeaPad I usually go in and start deleting anything that is
a service provided by Lenovo but keep anything that is specific to
hardware funchtions.

Lenovo likes to install what they feel is a customer experience
enhancement when all it is is a shopping app or a call back home to
Lenovo app for their customer support.  You'll have to decide on if you
need what they installed.

On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 08:58 -0600, Curtis Chong via NFBCS wrote:
> 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
>  
>  
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Joe Orozco via
> NFBCS
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2024 7:43 PM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> 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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