No, JAWS has a setting in the cursors page to speak when the cursor changes shape. I've always left that on, the one and only carry-over from my days of using Window-Eyes. 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: "Graham Smith" <g.smith577@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 19:00 Subject: Re: hour glass, arrow app starting etc I think you maybe confusing jaws with window eyes.At 10:59 AM 3/24/2011 -0700, you wrote: >Hello: >I was using another laptop earlier today, xp with jaws 11 and i was >wondering why jaws kept saying the things I noted in the subject line? >If its a configuration of sort, how do you configure jaws to do such >a thing and how would you change the behavior, if you are tired of >hearing app starting, arrow, hour glass, etc? >Thanks. -- 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 Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html 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 Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html 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