Voice recognition and programmes?

I have just recently got myself a new PC with new Vista voice recognition

program installed. I am disabled but have found this voice recognition is

quite good, but I would appreciate if anyone out there could help me with a

few questions on it.

How do you make Windows Vista voice recognition work with other programs?

if I get up word pad, it works fine, but if I get up windows word processor,

it doesn't work. Also if I get up a non windows program such as Google

earth, it doesn't seem to work properly with that either.

I am sure that all it needs is to be configured, but I don't know how, can

anybody help?

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andy t