Dudley, it's easy enough to put Jaws to sleep, the problem may be in restarting it. Push the Jaws key and V while in the application. Arrow down until you find Synthesized sound On. Hit space bar and close. Before closing, though, make a note of where that command was in the list, then you'll have to count the arrowings to find the same place again to turn it back on. Of course, if you've already set up a hot key for Jaws, you could turn Jaws off altogether and bring it back this way. To do this assuming you have a Jaws icon on the desktop, highlight this, push alt and enter, and you should find an option in there to set up a hot key. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dudleym@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 11 February 2011 10:46 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] temporarily disableing jaws Hi folks is there a shortcut within jaws to temporarily disable it? I want to record some sounds streamed through my sound card and my dectalk express has just gone belly up so I'm having to use the card for jaws output, which is also being recorded. Thanks Martin ** 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