Gerald, I have MS-Essentials installed, and was wondering the same. I didn't see any options that I could adjust or verify that applied to E-Mail. Are there any configurations we can modify? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 06:29 Subject: Re: 2 things but this is mostly about reading windows live mail MSE scans email attachments, where most viruses are likely to hide. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill White To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:18 AM Subject: Re: 2 things but this is mostly about reading windows live mail One question I have about MSE is: does it scan incoming e-mail? I understand that it doesn't. If it does, that would be good news for me. Thank you. Bill White billwhite92701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:14 AM Subject: Re: 2 things but this is mostly about reading windows live mail Avast is not as JAWS friendly as Microsoft Security Essentials. And in a recent comparison test among 16 leading anti-virus programs, MSE outscored Avast at malware detection. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: joanne To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:09 AM Subject: 2 things but this is mostly about reading windows live mail First, I wanted to chime in and let those with Avast know that the same warning message came when I started my computer. Don't know what's going on there but am hoping not to see that again. Avast seems to be the most Jaws-friendly of the antivirus programs. On to my question: I am learning how to tolerate Windows Live Mail, since I'll be using it until my XP machine returns. I like reading mail in HTML because when you read it in plain text and go to next message it doesn't say who it's from. But when I do read in HTML and hit delete so the next message can begin, it seems Jaws gets tired after reading about 3 or 4 messages and if I hit insert escape to refresh screen it works fine. In other words, the email is open and I hit delete, but it gets silent on next message and screen-refreshing makes it talk again. But after reading a few messages fine I find I'm screen-refreshing at the beginning of the rest of the messages. I know F.S. really doesn't have a set list of recommendations yet for Windows 7, and I also notice that when I installed Jaws it did put me to a basic windows 7 theme so it apparently knows which theme Jaws works best in. But do you think screen resolution should be changed so I won't have to keep refreshing the screen while reading mail, or do you think a program like Auto Sizer might help whatever is causing Jaws to not respond to the screen after awhile? If changing the screen resolution is the answer (right now it's 1024/768), wouldn't changing the screen resolution also change the workable theme that F.S. has recommended for Windows 7? I know if theme gets changed Jaws reads horribly so not sure what to do. Thanks for any help.