Hi Daniel, I'll maybe look for an update usually once or twice a week but there are times when I might look at least once a day. I prefer this method; you don't have to go looking on the web site but again that's just a personal preference of mine. I think it was about 3 weeks ago when I found the latest update version 8, 0, 1163, I got it by checking for updates, I did this before I opened my mail that day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:50 PM Subject: Re: Jaws 8 updates not always responding Hi Hal, I have no answer for your question, but I'd like to know something. How often do you do this? My own practike is to go to the FS site and download an update to my current Jaws version only when an FS newsletter or word of mouth (i.e., talk on this mailing list or another I'm on) says that there's an update, usually months apart. I wasn't aware that the program might be updated every so often without anyone knowing about it, and to just check periodically the way you do. Could you explain your personal approach? Maybe I could learn to update more often? Just checking. Thanks. checperidock progrm I may not know wjem whene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Pearson" <hspearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:07 PM Subject: Jaws 8 updates not always responding Hi to all on list, At times when I go to check for updates under help, I hear no message spoken, not even the prompt telling me to "Please wait while Jaws checks for updates, this may take several minutes." it just sits there or seems to. But when I read dialog box using insert B, the message is there; it doesn't go away until I push alt f4. Anyone else notice this; it happens mostly at night time I find. Hal -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date: 3/20/2007 8:07 AM -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: 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