Andrew, I have difficulties with the JFW dongle myself but I have not had that specific problem. I am running windows 8.1 but if you look at the dongle hard the system seems to think it has been disconnected but if you touch the dongle it reconnects but JAWS shifts to 40 minute mode. Freedom Scientific has been more than happy to sell me another dongle but I really don't want the one I have got. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:46 PM To: 'BCAB Discussion List (bcab@lists.bcab.org.uk)'; Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] JFW dongle with Windows 8.1 - USB issues Hi, Has anyone else seen USB issues with JFW (using 8.1 here with JFW 15) authorised by a dongle? I am finding that USB devices I plug into the system don't appear until I restart JFW. This means that I nearly bricked a phone today when doing an update, as the system couldn't find the phone after it rebooted. I did email FS some time ago on this and got nothing back whatsoever, so wondering if anyone else found this? If I remove the dongle, reboot the system and run JFW in demo mode, everything is fab. Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins