MessageI am going to have to disagree with the below advice. I have modified the AutoStartEvent function in all my versions of Jaws and what I have changed is at the end of this function right before the End Function statement and what I have added is spoken before the "Jaws for Windows is Ready" message is spoken. Therefore, it is not in the AutoStartEvent function. However, it is in the registry. HTH RTV ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Grimsby To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 12:16 PM Subject: RE: An Interesting Question hi, yes you can change this it is in the autostartevent and it is a message not a quoted string. hth jim grimsby msn: jim.grimsby@xxxxxxx email: jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx skype: jim.grimsby -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Dean Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 12:48 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: An Interesting Question Hi list. I have a question. It is not really a problem, just something I'm curious about. Earlier today, a friend of mine made a joke. The joke was a change in the start up message of JAWS. So, being the curious fellow that I am, I am wonderring, is there any way shape or form to change the JAWS start up message? I figured it might be in the .jss files but I don't want to go looking through all those. A year or so ago I tried the dictionary manager and it didn't work, and I figured out why. I also went through default.jss and tried searching for 'JAWS For Windows' but that produced no results. Anyone got any ideas? James MSN/Windows Messenger: jamesdean504@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: Semaj Yahoo: kg4RDF AIM: tootiki