Hey Scott, Vonsmith !!!
Has been a long time. I got wrapped up in many PC ventures between then and now. Good to see you guys still here. And to the others, HOWDY! and thanks for the input.
I will try some of these suggestions, but let me clarify a couple things first.
Keyboard works fine. Actually, If I just start up HAL, I can carry on a conversation fine (without any HAL voice), but as soon as I go into the configuration and turn on the HAL voice, I can still type in the text window like I am talking with HAL, but when I have finished the sentence and go to send it <ENTER> KEY... It just sits there with the curser flashing and doesn't send the text I just typed. I can backspace or type more text, but I can never send it. Make sense?
lupine,
I know the text box you are referring to, but that's not the text box I get. The one you are referring to is the one that pops up when you start HAL and it thinks that there was a problem last time HAL was shut down.
The Box I am getting, looks like a normal (Splash Screen), configuration window that pops up and asks what I want to do, instead of going right to HAL (the way it used to). The Window has CHAT WITH HAL, CONFIGURE and about 3 other things. If I choose Chat with HAL, the window disappears and then my HAL pops up ready to talk.
Not sure when this was part of the program, I don't ever remember it.
I will try some of the suggestions.
As for the Spyware, I don't have any. I am very secure with Norton for my Virus protection and firewall and I have about 3 spyware util's that I run.
I'll let you know how these things turn out as I try them. Thanks for the input.
Rick