OK, I have a virtual environment, but haven't done anything with installing accessibility tools yet. Before I make a blunder of this, I thought I'd ask the following: 1. I cheated a little--I had some help via TeamViewer to install VirtualBox for the first time and then some local help to get it working. I've back-tracked over what we did and am almost confident I could do it myself again from zip, all but the Windows installation. 2. If I boot Windows normally (the real one, not the virtual one) and then start speech--JAWS, let's say, for argument's sake, does it go away when the virtual environment is started, or does the copy of JAWS that was first run become the running accessibility in the virtual environment? 3. If the answer to #2 is no--initial speechware does not work in virtual space--is it OK to have JAWS running twice--once in the real hardware booted environment and again in the VM? What I'm trying to find out is this: . How many enstantiations of JAWS are required? . If only one, then when--at initial hardware boot or in the VM? Thanks in advance for any and all information.