ZoomText - Fix application performance and stability in third party applications

ZoomText - Fix application performance and stability in third party applications

Problem

You are having problems with ZoomText performance in apps like Excel.


Resolution

  1. Press Windows+R to open the Run command and enter the following string and click "OK": %programdata%
  2. From the new window open the folders Freedom Scientific > Zoomtext > [ZTVersion]
    Where [ZTVersion] is the year version of Zoomtext being used, example:
    "C:\ProgramData\Freedom Scientific\ZoomText[2021”
  3. When you have the folder showing, open the file by double clicking or pressing ENTER on:
    "ZoomtextConfig.xml"
  4. Search and locate the text :
    Focus timer interval in milliseconds
  5. Then move one line down to the where it reads:
  6. Then amend the line for the FocusTimerInterval to be 1250 or higher.
  7. Then search and locate the entry below:
    Property name="DisableUiaEvents"
  8. Now amend this value to true as per example below:
<Property name="DisableUiaEvents" value="true" />
  1. Search for and locate the entry:
    Property name="DisableMsaaEvents"
  2. Amend this value to be “true” as below example:
<Property name="DisableMsaaEvents" value="true" />
  1. Press CONTROL+S or choose "Save" from the File menu. If Zoomtext is running close and restart it.

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