I had that problem when ny son updated to A O L 9. When I happily removed A O L, I also removed the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quanin" <quanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:47 PM Subject: Re: JAWS Help Going On-Line > JAWS shouldn't be forcing yoru computer to go online, as it has no reason > to. I can think of 2 things that possibly could be happening to your > computer during that time. You either 1: have a program running that wants > to automatically connect your computer to the internet (some programs, such > as MSN, by default want to connect automatically to their servers), or 2: > In activating the JAWS help feature, you may be inadvertantly activating > some other feature as well. Could it, perhaps, be that for some reason your > computer is configured to automatically start up the internet when you > press f1 in the JAWS window (I'm assuming this is what you're doing)? If > so, try going into it via the help menu in that window instead. > > James > > At 02:39 PM 03/01/2004 -0800, you wrote: > >Hi everyone, > >Does anyone know why, when I activate the JAWS help in either 5.0 or 4.1 > >my computer goes on-line? > >Why is it necessary for the computer to be on-line when viewing the > >built-in help that JAWS provides? > >IS FS monitoring when help is being used? If so, why? > >Thanks. > >Dan > >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. > > > 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. > > > 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.