Martin, i have the home version which costs a few hundred dollars less than the pro. Yes, the pro version will work on any flavour of windows XP. I have Windows XP Home. Eleanor has mentioned here that she needed to pay quite a bit to upgrade her standard JAWS to the professional version. many people aren't happy with this practice by Freedom Scientific - of charging $300 more for the pro version, and then $85 or $100 for every JAWS pro version upgrade after that. I think there are more details at www.fs.com/ and perhaps also at the Sight & Sound website: www.sightandsound.co.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Trodden" <martintrodden@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:38 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast Hi Flor I have jaws 10 the full version. i have it on this pc which is windows vista i also have it on another pc which is windows xp and i have now installed it on an old pc which has xp pro and it works fine on all three computers. i am not aware of a home and a professional version of jaws i thought there was only the full version and the demo version. i will however look inte this further. Martin ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:59 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast > Martin, > > The poinbt I'm making is that there are two full or purchasable > versions > of JAWS JAWS standard and JAWS professional. The standard purchased > JAWS will not run on XP Pro for more than 40 minutes a go. The (free) > demo is just that, running for 40 minutes a go on any Windows OS. - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Trodden" <martintrodden@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:05 PM > Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast > > > Hi Flor > > you have made a good point there. there is two versions of jaws. > however > the > 40 minute version is purly a demo that can be downloaded for free but > will > run at a limited capasity on both windows home and professional. The > full > version of jaws will also run in full on both home and professionas > version > of xp and also on windows vista. > > Martin > ----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> > To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:05 AM > Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast > > >> Martin, >> >> There are two different versions of JAWS; the 'home' and >> 'professional'. >> The Home version will run only as a demo for 40 minutes on Windows XP >> pro, Windows media Center, and a couple of Windows Vista enterprise >> etc. >> editions. JAWS Professional is more expensive than the JAWS Home. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Martin Trodden" <martintrodden@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:36 PM >> Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast >> >> >> Hi Petrina. >> >> I know a few people who have had problems with that avast. they were >> getting a lot of warning notices with it and it also blocked a lot of >> stuff on them. my advice to you would be to remove avast and buy a >> anti-virus software like norton of mcafee. i use norton myself and >> never >> had a problem with it in the past 4 years. your jaws should work on >> both home and professional version of xp. >> >> Regards >> >> Martin >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Petrina Finn >> To: vip students >> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:31 PM >> Subject: [vip_students] avast >> >> >> hi my computer has avast on it. when I switch on the machine a pop >> up >> comes up to tell me it needs to be updated. when I click on this it >> offers me a version for about 40 or 50 euros. Is there any way I can >> update this fre or do I just go ahead and buy this? >> >> thanks in advance >> Petrina >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. >> We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. >> SPAMfighter has removed 35 of my spam emails to date. >> The Professional version does not have this message. >> >> >> > > > > > >