I had jaws do the same thing to me this week. I discovered that the reason was the computer wasn't fully loaded. Some Essential function for the Operating system wasn't fully loaded. After a couple of restarts everything worked fine. Everything loaded and jaws began talking again. Janet If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx