Rick, Do you possibly have two versions of JAWS both set to start automatically? That might jam things up. Also on my system I know that the logon screen comes up at least 30 seconds before JAWS starts talking, as observed by sighted peers. Check your verbosity settings in the default configuration and make sure that you have the echo set to highlighted. And to clarify, are you saying that JAWS does not speak automatically on its own, or that even if you press Insert+ 8 you still hear nothing? Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rik James To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:20 Subject: how to make pc talk right after startup? My JAWS 12 with latest update, under the Basic Options is set to start talking at startup. The checkbox IS checked. Yet when I shut down my system, and power back up, there is a blue screen with the primary user, the place for a guest to log on and it does NOT speak. This is Windows 7 Home Premium system. If I muffed up something, I sure cannot think where to pursue fixing it. Thanks for any suggestions. Rik