HI steve Which version of JAWS are you running? If it's 6.0 or later, try going to "run", then type "JAWS60/default" or "JAWS61/default" or "JAWS70/default", according to your version, then go into your user settings directory and see if you can edit the default.jcf config file in notepad, changing 1 to 0 on the line relating to sleep mode and then saving it. If you can't start JAWS using the method described here, you could probably do the edit with narrator. Good luck James ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Holmes To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: [access-uk] Jaws Won't Speak. Hi all, I've gone into the JFW config manager and enabled sleep mode and saved the setting thinking it would automatically cancel itself when I started Kerzweil 1000. Anyway I've changed something so Jaws won't speak everything. It will speak when I'm about to shut down. I tried to go into config manager but it gives me a strange message something like "Run unknown script in configuration Manager." I think I've created a setting but can't figure out how to rectify it as I don't have speech to do anything. I can't even get to the restore option. Any help would be appreciated. Jaws works when in an application such as MS Word or OE. Steve