Having been a touch typist for (can it be) 47 years now, I'd probably use a regular keyboard at home anyway. The only time I ever used a notebook, I cheated with a regular keyboard. Our EEO coordinator, our Web mistress, and I were doing a presentation on assistive technology to a quarterly EEO meeting about 8 years ago, and I figured this was not the time to acquire a new set of keyboard skills with company looking on. I got some great feedback, and I think the assembled company was impressed with JAWS' capability. Ted From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 3:51 PM To: org, jfw@freelists. Subject: jaws rattle the dreadful loud rattle sound from jaws andxp laptop continued,I recorded it ,so on sunday engineer can her it, pondering on sound cards as he did update the laptop completely, after the third death rattle in one afternoon, I pulled out the full keyboard I am using since it is easier than trying to use laptop keyboard, I heard a ping, as it left system and the rattle stopped at once! the full keyboard has a wedge shape plug and the round pin on keyboard lead has round point and it plugs into a lead with two leads,I am not explaining this well, but I suspect somewhere either the keyboard lead or the wedge shaped plug is the cause, but since I have always used a full plug in keyboard on my lap so I can sit comfortably it must be something external and not the sound card, well it started as a Jaws problem as it was Jaws that sounded in agony and I thought Jaws 11 was a gonner! Dorothy