Hi Eleanor, In order to use the jaws dongle, you have to have a full license of jaws which I think you have already. When you go to purchase the jaws dongle you submit your authorization code to whomever it is that you re purchasing it from. You can then download a portable version of the jaws 9 software and put it onto a pen drive and along with the dongle which also looks like a small pen drive you can have jaws on any computer you are working on for the duration of your work. However you will also need to take down a piece of software called "FSVideoIntercept.exe" this is very important and gets installed first as it links the jaws portable software with the video card of the computer you are working on. You would have to have either sighted help to install this or use the built in speech on windows XP called "narrator" which is very basic but should be enough to help you install this file. It takes about 2 minutes or so to install it and if you are working on a computer in a network like in a university etc then you need full admin rights to that computer given by an administrator. After installing the video intercept software, you need to reboot the computer and now with your pen drive plugged in along with the dongle also plugged into an extra USB port you can summon up the jaws portable version like as follows: 1. Go to the start menu and arrow down to run. Press enter key and type in the following. X:\jaws9 Then press enter. Note:X: is the drive letter that the jaws 9 portable version is installed onto so it would most likely be on your computer, "e:\jaws9" Here in Ireland if you already have a version of jaws like jaws 7 upwards then you can purchase I think the dongle jaws for about 70 euros. Paul. ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************