Judith, thanks for your response. Now I see, please do the following: 1. Press your start menu. 2. Look for All programs or Programs sub menu. 3. Once you are in the list of all programs, press J, and look for Jaws 7.0 sub menu. 4. Once you get in the Jaws 7.0 sub menu, press your down arrow key and look for Jaws. 5. Once you saw it, press your context menu or application context menu. If in case you don't know where it is, it is located at the left side of your right ctrl key. 6. Once it is pressed, hit R, for properties. 7. you will land in a multiple tab pages. Look for the short cut tab. 8. Press your tab key and look for "Short cut". Alt + K, will do it for you. 9. Once you are there, as you told, you have been created before. If Jaws does not say your short cut, do it again. While you are in the short cut field, press your desired short cut and press enter on Ok button to save and exit the property window. You can check weather your short cut has been created or not, before pressing the Ok button, do a alt + K, to move focus to the short cut field. If your short cut has been recognize, Jaws will announce it. 10. Once you save the settings you made, try to unload jaws and reload it again using your short cut. if it does not work, please let me know and let us try another way. Hope This Helps ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:40 AM Subject: Re: desk top icons Rodin, My version is Jaws 7. Yesterday I put a shortcut into the desk top but the problem is it doesn't work. Oftentimes, when I boot up or my husband dumps jaws so he can work on the machine, this shortcut which I assigned as control shift j, doesn't work when I hit it. Any suggestions as to how I can get jaws back with this shortcut? Thanks, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: info.rczenterprise@xxxxxxxxx To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:55 AM Subject: Re: desk top icons Judith@, I've saw your posted very long time. May I know what version of Jaws you want to create a short cut key? May I know also if the version of Jaws you are trying to create a short cut is in your desktop? Regards, Roden ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 6:24 AM Subject: Re: desk top icons I quickly went into the programs file and according to that I only have jaws 7.0 running on the computer. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Hutchins To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:19 AM Subject: Re: desk top icons Hi Judith, You could do that, then go into your control panel and make sure you only have one version of jaws. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: desk top icons I have two jaws icons on my desk top. One is simply "jaws" and the other is jaws 7.0. Since both icons have the shortcut or hotkey combination of control/alt/j should I delete the one that is simply "jaws"? Thanks, Judith