Hi Brian, I used to have this problem on my pc with Jaws5.1. It turned out to be a problem with the video chaining. You might want to try repairing Jaws or uninstalling and re-installing the Jaws video intercept manager. HTH, Phil Medway. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Booth To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:15 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Prolonged startup Hi, I installed JAWS V6.0 last week and everything seemed to go OK. Problem is, whenever I start up my computer, JAWS seems to take an age to say anything. From the point of turning on my computer to JAWS announcing itself, I have timed to 12 minutes. Does anyone know why this is taking so long? From the time of turning on to the Windows startup sound seems to be normal, but then I have to wait about ten minutes for JAWS to kick in. Any suggestions gratefully appreciated. Brian. -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net