Dear Wally,

I have the same issue with NVDA 2021.2 - you said you had 2021.1 installed.
When reading a long document in Word 2007 with Say All the reading is fine
for 5 to 7 minutes and then it stops, almost always on a full-stop. At this
point NVDA is unresponsive - it takes a minute or so to get it working
again.
This is a problem because I regularly record the computer's reading of texts
which may take up to two hours to read. Previously I could leave it until
the reading was finished, now I have to follow it to re-start it when it
stops, wasting hours of time.

I've tried different eloquence and Vocaliser voices, closing all windows
except for that of the document to be read, turning off the option for Word
to save the document every x number of minutes. I've also tried uninstalling
and re-installing NVDA, all to no avail.
I had assumed it was probably something specific to my system and so I was
interested to find someone else with a similar problem.

I too, would be interested in any suggestions people might have.

Best wishes

Robert Portal

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana
Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 10:50
A: nvda <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Oggetto: [nvda] nvda lagging

Good day mvda gurus

I hope you are well.

I am trying to cope.

I have a weird issue with nvda.

I am using nvda 2021.1.

It keeps on stopping.

This stopping or lagging has been with me for sometime now.

What could be the cause?

It happens when I am reading through a document or typing.

It also freezes easily these days.

What is going on?

Please assist.

Wally SA

Dear Wally,

I have the same issue with NVDA 2021.2 - you said you had 2021.1 installed.
When reading a long document in Word 2007 with Say All the reading is
fine for 5 to 7 minutes and then it stops, almost always on a
full-stop. At this point NVDA is unresponsive - it takes a minute or
so to get it working again.
This is a problem because I regularly record the computer's reading of
texts which may take up to two hours to read. Previously I could leave
it until the reading was finished, now I have to follow it to re-start
it when it stops, wasting hours of time.

I've tried different eloquence and Vocaliser voices, closing all
windows except for that of the document to be read, turning off the
option for Word to save the document every x number of minutes. I've
also tried uninstalling and re-installing NVDA, all to no avail.
I had assumed it was probably something specific to my system and so I
was interested to find someone else with a similar problem.

I too, would be interested in any suggestions people might have.

Best wishes

Robert Portal

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana
Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 10:50
A: nvda <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Oggetto: [nvda] nvda lagging

Good day mvda gurus

I hope you are well.

I am trying to cope.

I have a weird issue with nvda.

I am using nvda 2021.1.

It keeps on stopping.

This stopping or lagging has been with me for sometime now.

What could be the cause?

It happens when I am reading through a document or typing.

It also freezes easily these days.

What is going on?

Please assist.

Wally SA

I’ve always had this problem with Windows Mail in Windows 10 with any long emails at all, and sometimes with short ones from certain senders, likely with lots of graphics like the ones I get from our farmer’s market, and adds I get from Walmart, it will read a couple lines, stop for a literally several seconds to a minute or even 2, read a couple more lines, rince, repeat until I got tired of it and copied and pasted into notepad to read it there.

With emails from a question and answer site called Quora, I used to have to wait several minutes and play tricks trying to click in the message with the mouse cursor to get NVDA to unfreeze and let me navigate in the email, it would freeze on those as soon as I opened them, I would restart NVDA several times, hurry up and alt+tab to the window, and click something before it froze, keep doing that until I could navigate normally, but lately Quora must have changed something in the document because the emails come up right away with no problem now and I can open the page I want with my Quora digest.

Shawn Klein

Sent from Mail for Windows

Confirmed! Its not only NVDA. I find this with Jaws as well. Sometimes if I use one or the other. They stop talking in the middle of a message.

Sent from Mail for Windows

I’ve always had this problem with Windows Mail in Windows 10 with any long emails at all, and sometimes with short ones from certain senders, likely with lots of graphics like the ones I get from our farmer’s market, and adds I get from Walmart, it will read a couple lines, stop for a literally several seconds to a minute or even 2, read a couple more lines, rince, repeat until I got tired of it and copied and pasted into notepad to read it there.

With emails from a question and answer site called Quora, I used to have to wait several minutes and play tricks trying to click in the message with the mouse cursor to get NVDA to unfreeze and let me navigate in the email, it would freeze on those as soon as I opened them, I would restart NVDA several times, hurry up and alt+tab to the window, and click something before it froze, keep doing that until I could navigate normally, but lately Quora must have changed something in the document because the emails come up right away with no problem now and I can open the page I want with my Quora digest.

Shawn Klein

Sent from Mail for Windows

Dear Wally,

I have the same issue with NVDA 2021.2 - you said you had 2021.1 installed.
When reading a long document in Word 2007 with Say All the reading is
fine for 5 to 7 minutes and then it stops, almost always on a
full-stop. At this point NVDA is unresponsive - it takes a minute or
so to get it working again.
This is a problem because I regularly record the computer's reading of
texts which may take up to two hours to read. Previously I could leave
it until the reading was finished, now I have to follow it to re-start
it when it stops, wasting hours of time.

I've tried different eloquence and Vocaliser voices, closing all
windows except for that of the document to be read, turning off the
option for Word to save the document every x number of minutes. I've
also tried uninstalling and re-installing NVDA, all to no avail.
I had assumed it was probably something specific to my system and so I
was interested to find someone else with a similar problem.

I too, would be interested in any suggestions people might have.

Best wishes

Robert Portal

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana
Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 10:50
A: nvda <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Oggetto: [nvda] nvda lagging

Good day mvda gurus

I hope you are well.

I am trying to cope.

I have a weird issue with nvda.

I am using nvda 2021.1.

It keeps on stopping.

This stopping or lagging has been with me for sometime now.

What could be the cause?

It happens when I am reading through a document or typing.

It also freezes easily these days.

What is going on?

Please assist.

Wally SA

Wally,

I was interested you seemed to be having similar problems to mine but they are clearly not identical. I still think, for me at least, they are most likely to be connected with my system.

I forgot to say in the first message that I use Word 2007 with Windows 10, all updates included. I rarely have problems with NVDA disappearing while I type and Windows Explorer behaves as it should for me.

Best wishes

Robert Portal

-----Messaggio originale-----

Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana

Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 18:06

A: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Oggetto: Re: [nvda] nvda lagging

Hi Robert

You are quite right, it is confusing.

The worse of it, with me, it even lags in Windows explorer.

It needs to be attended to as urgently as possible.

Wally

On 10/12/21, Robert Portal <portalrm56@...> wrote:

> Dear Wally,

> 

> I have the same issue with NVDA 2021.2 - you said you had 2021.1 installed.

> When reading a long document in Word 2007  with Say All the reading is

> fine for 5 to 7 minutes and then it stops, almost always on a

> full-stop. At this point NVDA is unresponsive - it takes a minute or

> so to get it working again.

> This is a problem because I regularly record the computer's reading of

> texts which may take up to two hours to read. Previously I could leave

> it until the reading was finished, now I have to follow it to re-start

> it when it stops, wasting hours of time.

> 

> I've tried different eloquence and Vocaliser voices, closing all

> windows except for that of the document to be read, turning off the

> option for Word to save the document every x number of minutes. I've

> also tried uninstalling and re-installing NVDA, all to no avail.

> I had assumed it was probably something specific to my system and so I

> was interested to find someone else with a similar problem.

> 

> I too, would be interested in any suggestions people might have.

> 

> Best wishes

> 

> Robert Portal

> 

> -----Messaggio originale-----

> Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana

> Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 10:50

> A: nvda <nvda@nvda.groups.io>

> Oggetto: [nvda] nvda lagging

> 

> Good day mvda gurus

> 

> I hope you are well.

> 

> I am trying to cope.

> 

> I have a weird issue with nvda.

> 

> I am using nvda 2021.1.

> 

> It keeps on stopping.

> 

> This stopping or lagging has been with me for sometime now.

> 

> What could be the cause?

> 

> It happens when I am reading through a document or typing.

> 

> It also freezes easily these days.

> 

> What is going on?

> 

> Please assist.

> 

> Wally SA

> 

> 

> 

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If you hold control and move up and down the list in Windows Explorer, now called File Explorer, you won’t have the lag problem.  Once you get to the file or folder you want, stop, then up and down arrow back to it so it and only it will be selected.

 

Gene

-----Original Message-----

From: Marisane Moruthanyana

Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 11:06 AM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] nvda lagging

 

Hi Robert

You are quite right, it is confusing.

The worse of it, with me, it even lags in Windows explorer.

It needs to be attended to as urgently as possible.

Wally

On 10/12/21, Robert Portal <portalrm56@...> wrote:
> Dear Wally,
>
> I have the same issue with NVDA 2021.2 - you said you had 2021.1 installed.
> When reading a long document in Word 2007  with Say All the reading is fine
> for 5 to 7 minutes and then it stops, almost always on a full-stop. At this
> point NVDA is unresponsive - it takes a minute or so to get it working
> again.
> This is a problem because I regularly record the computer's reading of texts
> which may take up to two hours to read. Previously I could leave it until
> the reading was finished, now I have to follow it to re-start it when it
> stops, wasting hours of time.
>
> I've tried different eloquence and Vocaliser voices, closing all windows
> except for that of the document to be read, turning off the option for Word
> to save the document every x number of minutes. I've also tried uninstalling
> and re-installing NVDA, all to no avail.
> I had assumed it was probably something specific to my system and so I was
> interested to find someone else with a similar problem.
>
> I too, would be interested in any suggestions people might have.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Robert Portal
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: nvda@nvda.groups.io Per conto di Marisane Moruthanyana
> Inviato: mardi 12 octobre 2021 10:50
> A: nvda <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
> Oggetto: [nvda] nvda lagging
>
> Good day mvda gurus
>
> I hope you are well.
>
> I am trying to cope.
>
> I have a weird issue with nvda.
>
> I am using nvda 2021.1.
>
> It keeps on stopping.
>
> This stopping or lagging has been with me for sometime now.
>
> What could be the cause?
>
> It happens when I am reading through a document or typing.
>
> It also freezes easily these days.
>
> What is going on?
>
> Please assist.
>
> Wally SA
>
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