Hi all, The announcement of "the computer is ready for you to talk to it." has become erratic on my computer. I usually hear it when I am shutting down the computer with the ""shutdown the computer immediately" command. Sometimes, I hear it when I go to the desktop. This seems to be some kind of timing issue. I see nothing in the system logs to warrant such behavior and j-say is working properly in all other respects. Computer configuration OS=Windows 2000 professional all updates applied JFW version=7.10 build 500 J-say version=4.3 I have already tried creating a new user with no success. Pranav