From what you describe it does appear that you have hibernation fully disabled, which would make Fast Startup an impossibility (which is a good thing, in my opinion). If you want to reenable the

Brian, after step #3, this is what JAWS says (copied from JAWS's speech history, and all I'm doing is tabbing): Search box Edit When I press the power button: (Plugged in) Combo box Shut down 3 of

thanks Steve.

This may apply to some. On my systems, I get an additional dialog that has combos for time to turn off display or go to sleep, after which is a link labeled "Additional power settings" that

First, before I go any further, I strongly suggest that Fast Startup be turned OFF. If you have a machine with an SSD you will not notice any difference whatsoever in boot time whether it's off or

I updated to 68.4.2 earlier today with no operational difference.

Unfortunately, I don't find a fast startup checkbox. could it be that because I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 that the fast startup was automatically disabled? I had previously turned off

Thanks Bill! That did it!

I recently got a message that there is an update to Thunderbird, but someone on this ML mentioned that maybe it's not something to do. I'm wondering if I should or not. I'm currently using 68.3.1

Hi, Richard. To enable Fast Startup, do the following: 1. Access Windows 10 Power Options. This can easily be achieved using several methods: a. Right click in the lower left corner of the

Hi! I am using JAWS 2019 and Windows 10. Previously, with FS in “Tandem,” I got to the checkbox for “Fast Start” and unchecked that option. Now, I want to get back to it and check it

download the 2020 offline installer, temporarily disconnect from the Internet and disable the antivirus scanning, and run the repair. if the problem still persists, call FS. I recently had a

Hi, Try going into device manager and update your video drivers and make sure your date and time settings are correct. HTH

No idea. I'd probably call tech support if I were in that position.

Hi all, I am running, jaws 2020, on a windows ten computer. I posted this earlier, but am doing it again, because I didn’t explain myself well. Every time, I boot up my computer, I get this

Hello, Thanks for these ideas. After sending my message yesterday, I found a good one. It's called Adblock for Youtube for getting rid of irritating ads. David

Thanks for the article, I agree there are many good reasons for disabling fast start up. However in this case I found it brought no benefit and even made more confusion. And I agree it doesn’t make

You may also call Microsoft Accessibility, an Office repair may be helpful.

Well, that is truly the first time I heard that disabling fast startup has these effects, many tech savvy people are quite agreed upon the fact that if there are issues it may be fast startup which

Dave, I had not noticed that before and will definitely check it out.