Hi Steve and Everyone, After Steve's comment about the Remote Desktop help topics in JAWS, I went and did some reading. Now my VPN works flawlessly, with speech, Braille and at normal speaking rate. The trick: When I left work today, before I logged off I shut down JAWS. I then logged off. When I connected from home, JAWS was able to launch and begin with Remote Speech and Remote Braille, and everything worked as expected. I've still got more experimenting to do, but this tip cured all of my troubles. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Steve. Lora -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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