Hi Geoff, Sorry for the late reply, but I've been having problems with my system that I have not yet resolved, & it keeps me off the net for days at a time. Good that others have described some of the issues, as I can't actually remember the specifics, as I have used the below method for restarting Jaws as a service for well over a year now. From memory, it made little difference on my home machine, but at work, there were real problems with some of the Internet Explorer based programs, & even some on the mainframe, probably to do with MSAA, but I cant actually remember. Regards, Paul from Aust ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> paul. would you mind elaborating/sharing these real but subtle differences you've found, between running jaws as a service, and not? I'm sure we'd all be interested! Geoff c. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Magill" <magills@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi, > > In the profiles of the icon for your version of Jaws, the target line is > usually the path to the .exe file of that particular version of Jaws. > > i e. the hot key attached to that icon launches the Jaws .exe file, which is > *not* Jaws running as a service. > > I have control+alt+F8 as the hot key for version 8, & so on for other > versions. > > I created another desktop icon with the hot key control+alt+J, & the target > line is: > C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe start jfwservice > which starts the version of Jaws which is configured to auto start when the > system starts. > > I have found subtle, but real differences, between running Jaws as a > service, & running it as just another program. > > Hope this helps, > Paul from Aust __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts