Before you turn it off, get the Jaws window on the screen, , go to the options menu, basic options. Push tab twice and make sure "run Jaws first" is checked. I'm sure you must have learned to do that years ago, but it's the obvious thing. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: 12 June 2008 08:44 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Getting Jaws to speak Hi tiddy changed subject Line I am now on desktop and not sure how but Jaws is talking again, I heard a sort of dong sound as if computer was telling me something was unfinished, you know what I mean a task incomplete, if moving to Kurzweil and back did not do it I got a bit worried. Kurzweil of course is a Self voicing application but you can power down from it and off completely, May be I will turn all off in a bit and leave and start from scratch and see if Jaws does the same thing stay silent. if it does any ideas? By the way did that attachment called soundings seem Ok to you? The only unfamiliar Attachment apart from Highways, could a Trojan have been carried in it as you heard it was News from New York times, and about Ray Kurzweil and his forecasts for the future, plus others like Dr Ramachandron I think I have spelt name of latter wrongly, ,if you read it I wonder what you thought? Myself I think he should reduce the tablets, Dorothy ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq