Here's a full tech note on the Nuance site on how to disable the unused feature in Nuance that disables FaceSay.  
http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6391
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To add students, from within the games, you can click on the Flower Baby, then New Students.  Or from the Welcome screen, you can press F12.   Want to watch a quick video tutorial?
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Internet:
Optional.  FaceSay can run without any internet connection.  Automatic updates and semi-automatic activation are available if the PC is connected to the internet.

Operating System:
FaceSay is designed to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 2000.  

Mac users can run FaceSay on Apple's Bootcamp.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3777



Memory (RAM):
1GB for For XP and 2000
2GB for Vista and Windows 7

Disk Space:
300mb of free space

CPU Speed:
1.75GHZ or faster

Sound:
A sound card and either speakers or headphones are required - to hear the spoken tips, personalized praise "Good job, <student name>!", etc.

TouchScreen:
Optional, but encouraged, not for accessibility, but so that the student can physically participate in social gestures/interactions.  Here are some possible options:
MagicTouch Add-on TouchScreen ($160)
GateWay AllIn One PC ($750)
HP All In One PC ($900)
HP TouchScreen Laptop (old model - $800)
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For $249 dollars, you can purchase a 5 student license for FaceSay Classroom on 1 PC. This is a nice "entry level" fit for a small private practice or an itinerant therapist, say, who has up to 5 students.

A standard license, with unlimited number of students (on one computer) is $479 dollars.

Volume discounts are available - 10% for a 5 Pak for 5 PCs and 20% for a 10 Pak.  Please contact us for a quote for district wide licensing.

The Home Edition will be 79 dollars for one child and $129 dollars for two children.  If you want to be notified as soon as it's available, please add your email to the "keep me posted" gizmo at the bottom of the "How To Buy" page.  See below for details on the release date.

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FaceSay is best for kids ages 4 to 12, preK - 8th grade.  In the 2007 study, the participants ranged in age from 6 to  14.

On my drawing board is a new set of themes/characters - changing out the cute stuff for superheroes, scientists and such - which should appeal more to the older students and even adults.

A version for younger children is also in planning.

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If you are running an older version of Trend Micro Anti Virus, and you encounter a "TROJ_GENERIC" warning, either while downloading FaceSay or while starting FaceSay, it is a false positive. Please run the TrendMicro update to get their latest engine to fix the problem

The reported file is execryptorvb.dll, a third party component that, like the FaceSayClassroom.exe file, will not run if it has been changed at all.

Click here to view Virus Total Report showing execyryptorvb.dll clean on 33 engines, including the latest Trend Micro engine:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/c5...

Thanks,

Casey

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Chances are, you may be short of space on your PC's hard drive, and only part of the file downloaded.   If you have plenty of space and you still get this error, please watch the video below for tips on how to confirm that the file was downloaded securely and intact onto your PC.

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