Kurzweil 7 and 8 like to crash after completely random intervals on my computer under xp. Crashes are far less rare for me in 98, and that is dispite the fact that I use 98 about 98 percent more. lol Of course when it crashes in 98 I most likely will have to restart my computer, and in xp that isn't necessary to continue. I am always just reading something I have scanned when this happens. I believe it is synthesizer related, but I can't prove it. Xp just doesn't allow the use of enough synthesizers that are both tollerable and unrelated enough to be run at the same time with Kurzweil and jaws. Sarah Van Oosterwijck curious entity at earthlink dot net