hi Medeksza im sorry but ive tried the microphone thing and nothing happened. Im using the one bult in to my laptop, its only a few months old. Have no idea how to do training. I clicked on it but nothing happened. You see, ever since I came across this website, and saw what was said about hal assistant, first i thought wow this is what i need my memorys bad ( see my other reply I had an accident and im all smashed up and on max morphine for a kid so difficult to even think cos of the fkn pain) and then when I try the trial version it dont work because it dont recognise my voice we all know that now. OK so the program Hal will cost me maybe 3 weeks pocket money, then Dragon is 6 weeks and then a microphone how much is that?? OK im gonna say what I think about Zabbaware. First it looks good until you find it DOES NOT WORK unless you buy this and that and the other. BUT you don.t know IF it will work till you spent all that extra money. Its like buying a car and the salesman says, oh, you must call in the workshop before you take the car away cos it needs wheels and the gearbox has only one speed you can buy more if you want but otherwise it wont go up hills but don't worry it has satnav you can plan a route to avoid them. THEN there is this forum. Probably plenty of nice people like Medeksza and Lightspeed but who set it up? I KNOW, its very clever coders and programmers who are super intelligent, not like ME or OTHERS who come here with their stupid questions. They put a box here that has numbers in. It says must be left blank. It means of course, you must DELETE the numbers, if you left it it would not be blank would it? Then it says Verification: Type the letters shown in the picture. There is no picture. Then it says Listen to the letters/Request another image. ANOTHER? There cant be another of there is not one first. So use the same logic and leave that blank. OH, NO, you idiot, thats wrong. Hmm its deleted everything i just typed, have to do it again. Listen to letters. What was that? G or T? P or C? so you do, and enter them, ten, fifteen times, the COMPUTER VOICE messes up the pronunciation you cant distinguish between them. I should have known the voice would be bad on a website selling them. OK I know a mouse is smaller than a horse and lava is hot ( if its liquid, when it hardens its cold, what is it called then? anyone know? cold lava or rock? Last you can have a SHORTCUT to finish and submit/post or preview. Yes, the shortcut is two things press alt+s, but there is a post button, ONE click to post. Hmmm. OK now I have a servant to help me. Hes older than me hes 16, and used to verbally bully me when i was all lying bent in my wheelchair. I got fed up and challenged him to arm wrestling. He laughed and told all his cronies he was gonna break my arm. Ha ha. Stupid boy never thought that with legs like inert sticks that I would have strong upper body to get me in/out of wheelchair/shower/etc. So the look on his face when he couldnt move my arm! I took a time so that he suffered most and then pushed his hand down and to make sure he NEVER bullied me again i twisted his hand and broke his wrist. Whoops! I'm not like that normally. anyone want to see what I do on my computer all day. ( not at school now, have tutor at home its better) look on YouTube and type in skizzysmith you will see my animations all hand (mouse) drawn. Dont think I will be buying Hal. You will be reading this if I get past the difficulties.