iTunes is a pretty bloated program and it may be because of heavy processor usage. I find that pressing the stop button in iTunes when it is doing the whoel ?determining volume? thing helps. Also, you can disable a lot of unnecessary features in the program like bonjour, apple tv sharing etc if you don?t? need them. There?s a good article on the how-to-geek website that breaks all this down and tells you how to disable a lot of unneeded stuff. I don?t have the article on hand, but it?s easy enough to search for on the site. Give that a try and see if it improves anything? _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marsha Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 11:20 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: jaws 11 XP laptop speech very choppy Hi, Not sure what is going on, but when reading a message, using itunes, and navigating the web, Jaws speech is choppy and cuts out the first part of what it says. Any ideas? Thanks, Marsha