Thanks Brandon: Last time I took that laptop on a short trip, the place I was staying didn't seem to allow telnet, so we ran Cygwin with an ssh. It was completely frustrating, lots of extra punctuation, even after working in the JAWS dictionary. After writing this list on Saturday, I looked in the JAWS options, I checked sleep mode, but an option for useing another screen-reader seems to be gone. I remember `many years ago installing zipslack but I had no idea how to get speech, however, reason I mention this is, when I would alt-tab it would say "apache" but since JAWS was quiet, that kind of configuration would be really nice, where I could alt-tab among a windows-and-Linux screen-reader. While I would be happy with an eliquence IBM speech, which I purchased, but last I tried, the volume was quite lo. I also didn't mind a US/Russian speech which was on an Oralux Live-CD Thanks so much in advance, but no festival speech please Hart