thanks I like jaws 12 better than 11 it is not the speech rate but the suspense of waiting for jaws to speak at all, since an engineer is coming later to try and fix windows 7 I will ask him to see if any reason, I am giving it the XP a firm press using function key 5 that seems to get system moving I hear ping of incoming mail then thanks Dorothy, ----- Original Message ----- From: Farfar Carlson To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: jaws12 Actually I've noticed that JAWS 12 loads faster than does JAWS 11. Speech rate is adjustable, so I presume that's not your question. Dave Composed in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban To: org, jfw@freelists. Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 07:23 Subject: jaws12 I wonder if Jaws 12 is slow to speak for others, using XP laptop at moment,the music comes on fast,so it loads but takes ages before Jaws speaks, I do have jaws 11on andnvda ,in case but is Jaws 12 taking longer than most to speak? my task bar and system tray do not seem overloaded thanks Dorothy