HMM, not really. I suppose if you were willing to do a little waiting you could find a program that started an application after a delay and run that as a service - in effect delaying Jaws startup: whether or not that would work is anyones guess. HTH, Sean R. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it is very cold in space. - Khan, "Star Trek II" ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Reid To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:38 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws 5.1 startup probs Hi no joy. Plenty sound but immediately after log on. Win xp, sp2. Any thoughts, Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Randall To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:47 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws 5.1 startup probs Hi tom, I've been away for a while so hope I can be of use. Do you get General windows sound? if not, the sound card drivers could be taking a while to kick in. if so, I'm a bit flummoxed - jaws and narrator use totally different software for text output (unless jaws is using mstts by default). If you got a hardware syntha round, see if that talks as a default. And does the problem fix itself if you try to load a different synth without restart jaws? To do without speech: Insert j for the jaws window, Alt then l for language, C for change synthesizer, E for eloquence (if it's the only one beginning with e). HTH, Sean. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Reid To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Jaws 5.1 startup probs Have just had a crash and upgraded from windows xp home to xp pro. On startup, jaws is running, but, no sound. When I unload and reload, I get sound. Though I have jaws set to auto start, I looked in the registry and seems like no eloquence is default, though i may be misreading this. I can not get sound from narrator at startup either. Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/04