Marsha, Give this a try. You're on your desktop, but icons not speaking. Press Insert+V Press the End key. Press the spacebar. Arrow up to see if you now have speech turned on. If you'd prefer to have Narrator running, then before those steps, press Windows+u. Dave Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marsha To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 00:17 Subject: Re: Making Jaws Speak Desktop Icons HiThe icons are on the desktop but Jaws won't read them. It's almost like I put the jaws to sleep for the desktop. Marsha