Actually I've noticed that JAWS 12 loads faster than does JAWS 11. Speech rate is adjustable, so I presume that's not your question. Dave Composed in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban To: org, jfw@freelists. Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 07:23 Subject: jaws12 I wonder if Jaws 12 is slow to speak for others, using XP laptop at moment,the music comes on fast,so it loads but takes ages before Jaws speaks, I do have jaws 11on andnvda ,in case but is Jaws 12 taking longer than most to speak? my task bar and system tray do not seem overloaded thanks Dorothy