Hi. I can tell you some suppliers, including Dell, will ship XP on a computer if that's what you want. Certainly the 2GB of RAM now virtually standard, will be made better use of, though I know one of Vista's tricks is to utilize USB sticks for extra memory. Can't help much with your second question, except to say to write to a CD in a writable drive it must of course be a CD/RW and must be formated or prepared to act like a floppy or writable drive. Cheers, Ray. ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Jones Subject: [access-uk] Can anyone help? Hi all, I've got two queries, i hope someone's got the answers; First I'm about to get a new laptop. Until now I've only used XP but apparently all new PC's and laptops have vista as standard. I'm told vista isn't very user-friendly for jaws users. Can anyone confirm or correct this? Can you use jaws on a computer with vista? Second I've hit a problem; i can play CD;s and DVD;s, i can read and copy files from CD's and DVD's, but i can't write to CD or DVD either via the send to submenu or by copy and paste, the drives don't even appear on the send to submenu. I've put new CD and DVD writers on my computer. Any ideas? Thanks in anticipation; Keith Jones Tel; 01495309485 Internet phone; 02921112813 Mobile; 07981529856 Fax; 08712642336 Email: keith.a.jones@xxxxxxxxxx