JAWS shouldn't be forcing yoru computer to go online, as it has no reason to. I can think of 2 things that possibly could be happening to your computer during that time. You either 1: have a program running that wants to automatically connect your computer to the internet (some programs, such as MSN, by default want to connect automatically to their servers), or 2: In activating the JAWS help feature, you may be inadvertantly activating some other feature as well. Could it, perhaps, be that for some reason your computer is configured to automatically start up the internet when you press f1 in the JAWS window (I'm assuming this is what you're doing)? If so, try going into it via the help menu in that window instead. James At 02:39 PM 03/01/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Hi everyone, >Does anyone know why, when I activate the JAWS help in either 5.0 or 4.1 >my computer goes on-line? >Why is it necessary for the computer to be on-line when viewing the >built-in help that JAWS provides? >IS FS monitoring when help is being used? If so, why? >Thanks. >Dan >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. 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.