if you know how to run jaws in the deafult mode try that. stop jaws from starting at start up and then do the default jaws or if you can get jaws to shut down, after a boot, then run jaws in default and see if the same issues exsist. did you try any other screen reader like window eyes, sa,nvda ect.. and did they exsibit the same behavior? there is a portable for nvda so you do not need to install it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Holdstock To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [Bulk] JAWS strange behaviours As far as I am aware. Didn't think there was really anything to change with jaws 23 and windows 7 if using the defaults as installed by windows 7. Never had a probelm with clean installs before. All drivers, especially graphics drivers are installed etc. Peter From: Farfar Carlson Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 6:38 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Bulk] JAWS strange behaviours Have you set all (and I mean all) the display parameters to what FS recommends/ Dave Carlson Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Holdstock To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 09:26 Subject: [Bulk] JAWS strange behaviours Hi all, I did email about this a week or so back but either didn’t get any response or missed them. I’m not sure if this is caused by JAWS or not, but I have tried JAWS 11 and 12 running on an Intel I5 processor, 4GB RAM and Windows 7 64bit. Even without any intervention from myself JAWS says that it’s gone in to a context menu, or changed windows or gone on to the desktop. Often I find I can’t do anything i.e. switch to different windows or the desktop. The only key which seems to have any affect is the INSERT F10 keystroke to bring up a list of windows. I’m occasionally finding that JAWS also won’t read context menus. A restart of JAWS usually fixes it but on occasions I can’t get to the start menu or run dialogue to rstart JAWS. This is a brand new computer. I even resorted to completely reinstalling windows and starting a fresh and still the same problem before I’ve even installed any other applications other than JAWS. Any help appreciated as it’s starting to get a bit much. Problem is I don’t even know if it is a JAWS issue. I’m running Microsoft Security Essentials and am pretty certain it’s not virus or malware related. The only thing I can think which is different to previous PCs I’ve had is the 64bit operating system and where possible 64bit versions of my applications. Thanks Peter