task manager is a bit anoying tbh, i open it and it takes for ever to load but once it does it works fine

@NVAccess well for me, lets say the computer is acting a bit squearly. one of the first things I check is ok, is there a process slowing things down. I have that program sitting in my system tray, so I can do insert f11, and press c for CPU, although for some strange reason, NVDA has a space before the C. it does for a few different things in my system tray, so if I am using NVDA, I press the spacebar until I hear something along the lines of CPU Usage: 12 percent, NVDA.exe 8 percent. Lets just say that is what I hear, so if that is the case, simply doing a restart of NVDA should fix it, but I also might hear something like dropbox.exe 10 percent. so what I would do in this case is if I am using JFW, I would do an alt+d to give that program focus, it is the same as a left double click with the mouse. I would then press the letter d until I heard dropbox.exe. once I land on that, I would do a shift+del which kills the process. if I am sitting on the first instance of it, it kills the whole tree of them. I can then do a windows m to minimise everything, and go to the desktop, press insert+f11 again, and look at my CPU usage, and usually it will have fixed it, so it might say something like CPU usage 1 percent. that is the only thing I use it for, well that and to see how much physical ram I am using. that is another icon in the system tray, as I told that program to put it there.

@NVAccess another strange thing I am noticing is with the system tray addon, which I know you can't do anything about is when you bring it up, some icons have a space at the beginning and some don't. with JFW, when you do the insert+f11, none of the icons have a space at the beginning at all. I love being able to do first letter navigation, but in this case, that might not always work. no problem, just hit the spacebar until I hear the one I want. sadly when you do win+b you can't do first letter navigation. if you could, that would rock, but you can't. I use the system tray quite a bit threwout the day. that is where my weather watcher live program is, the icon f for VLC media player, my outlook, ETC.

@JamiePauls 2/2 For tables, it's in NVDA's document formatting: Press NVDA+control+d, you can tab through the options, or press alt+t until you get to tables, there are several things you can enable or disable (tables themselves, row / columns, coordinates, etc). You can also create a configuration profile so changing how tables are reported only happens in Outlook if you prefer. (Here's a blog post on that: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… )

@NVAccess Let’s take these in reverse order. First, I was wondering if I could change the settings on a per app basis so thank you for that blog post. I will read it when I get a chance. Now going backward to the first point, I was unclear. I have to change the reading pain setting in Outlook itself. What Leasey does is automatically read messages when arrowing up and down through the message list. I did not recall that NVDA would automatically read messages when an Outlook message was opened. To end on a positive note, I really like the responsiveness of NVDA, especially when using E speak. I realize many people positively despise that synth, but it does what it does. I also really like using reaper with NVDA. I do have the Jaws scripts created by Jim Snowbarger, but reaper itself just seems to respond a little more quickly with NVDA loaded. I think both screen readers are really really good at this point, and that says a lot for how far NVDA has come. Finally, I really enjoy the new mailing list that has been created and I appreciate the engagement on social media.

@JamiePauls Thanks Jamie for your kind words! Thanks to yourself and Brian for noting the reading behaviour with Leasey - I have written up a request for a feature option for NVDA. I don't know what the technical challenges for implementing it are, but certainly the ask itself was easy enough to understand.