Greetings, everyone. Because I am not the only user of my home PC, I've loaded Java Runtime Environment 1.5 so that my sighted wife, whenever necessary, can view Java-enabled Web pages or games. This tool, though, presents an inconvenience for me given my total blindness in light of the operating system I use at home. Since JRE by default presents a Java toolbar whenever a Java-enabled Web page pops up, this feature makes the Web page virtually invisible to me. I can't use the Virtual PC Cursor or the JAWS cursor to read anything; in fact, all I can do when such a page comes up is to hit Ins+F7 to get a list of available links. Our home system, an older Compaq Presario desktop, uses Windows 98 SE. From testing our office systems, I know that, if your Windows operating system is XP Pro with SP2, there is a menu entry in IE's tools called "Third Party Plug-ins." This tool lets me disable or enable at will plug-ins such as the Sun Java tool bar. But no such feature is apparent in IE if the OS is older than XP SP2. Is there a way I can still keep the functionality of Java, whenever my wife needs it, yet disable that toolbar in Windows 98 so I can read all page content as normal? Kind regards, Kane Brolin -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx