Bill,

This may not address your specific problem, but it would be in the list of
things I'd try. In fact, I encourage anyone who uses a PC to do the
following whenever they think they are experiencing odd behavior from
their computer...

Get a copy of Ad-aware software from www.lavasoft.de -- it is free and is
a moderate-sized download (about 1.5 MB). It will scour your hard drive
for spyware that may have been inadvertently installed over the course of
the last few years.  Sometimes spyware/adware makes some significant
changes to how your system works. I've been using various versions of it
for over 18 months now and I think it not only has been a very useful
tool, it's also eye opening for those who don't understand the kinds of
sneaky things that get installed in the course of installing so-called
freeware and shareware.

If you have installed various patches/updates from Microsoft that may have
affected how NatSpeak works as well, though I haven't personally
experienced this.  Have you considered upgrading to Win98? In my
experience it was more stable than Win95.

Lastly, I'd try a complete uninstall/reinstall, including your speech
files (move the current ones to another location on your drive, under a
new folder). This will help determine whether the problem is a corrupted
user file.

-*- Dan Comden                   [log in to unmask]
    Adaptive Technology Lab      http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
    University of Washington

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, William McQueen wrote:

> I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred version 5 in
> WIN95B since I bought it in 2000. (A separate version which was
> not included with WP9) .... The programme has worked well,
> flawlessly, I should say, UNTIL last week. (I know the box doesn't
> include WIN95B, but several other experts correctly said yes it
> could support v5.)
>
> I have twice tried to "repair" it, and lastly, removed it (saving my

-*- Dan Comden                   [log in to unmask]
    Adaptive Technology Lab      http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
    University of Washington