Unless you have a second sound card attached to your laptop, the Sigma Tel is the only sound card. "Windows Default" will also be the same Sigma tel card, so it makes no difference. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Rouillard Cc: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 08:51 Subject: laptop question Hi everyone, I have a question about jaws and a laptop. I have a dell inspiron 1525 laptop with windows xp and jaws 10. Which sound card should I use with jaws? Under the sound cards menu, I have windows default sound card and sigmitell audio. Is there any way to adjust the volume using the keyboard. Jaws does not tell me when I hit one of the touch buttons located above the keyboard. Thanks in advance for your help! Michael Rouillard