Any possibility you have a screen saver that starts up? Other possibilities are a background virus scanner or drive backup. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Cal To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 18:14 Subject: JAWS losing focus I just put in a new hard drive and installed JAWS 11. If I step away from my computer for a short time and leave the focus on JAWS or any other program, when I come back I find that the focus has changed to a blank screen and I have to alt-tab back to the screen I was working on or want to get to. Any idea what might be causing this? I'm not even sure if it's a JAWS-related problem or not, but I never encountered this using lower versions of the program. PS: Thanks to those of you who have helped answer some of my other inane questions I posted during the past week. Although I can't write to you individually, your replies to my questions are sincerely appreciated and I think you for your time.