Hi Howard, Hmmmm well I can't say definitively whether it's time for you to send your PK back to HumanWare or reinstal the software, but I can tell you that from my experience speech has quite often been lost. This happened a heck of a lot during a time period which preceded my PK totally getting messed up and me having to send it back. Having said that, it behaves very well now (touch wood) but still sometimes loses speech. I don't know why this is but one thing that does usually make speech disappear is if I write fast - but I wouldn't imagine this applies when you're travelling. Another general tip is to make sure you don't let your flash disk get too full, and frequently empty your cookies and temporary internet files if you use KeyWeb. As far as I know there isn't a disk cleanup for the BN. You might get more expertise and info on this from the BrailleNote list - can't remember if I've seen you there or not... Catherine On 6/12/08, Howard Kaufman <wa9top@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I got great help on this list. Thank you. Maybe this is a human ware > question, but I know they will tell me to send it back and give them money. > Well that's not fair, I think that is what they will tell me. > On my last two trips I lost speech. I had to do a reset to get it back. I > use braille exclusively while travelling, so I don't notice it until I get > home. Is this time for a re-install of the software, or a trip to Human > ware? I have never done maintainence on windows CE. Are their > defragmenting software or the equavilent of diskcleanup? > > >