If you have only run your JAWS authorisation on that one PC then you'll be fine, but if you've ran it on three PCs or had to go through the authorisation process three times on the same PC (i.e. due to having reformatted your PC previously, I would suggest going to the FS activate site and requesting a reset of the number of activations you have left. This is because otherwise you might find you can't activate JAWS and have to wait for them to reset your activations. You might as well do this before you reformat and at least then you know you wont be stuck with JAWS in 40 minute mode for a day or two. You can access the FS Activate site from the JAWS help menu. Peter From: Eric Brinkman Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:12 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: What to do before I reformat my hard drive Hi, Before I reformat my hard drive, I just want to make sure there's nothing I need to do with my Jaws authorization. I'm using Jaws 9 with Windows XP. I plan to just download the Jaws9 executable from Freedom Scientific and save it to my external HD and reinstal it from there. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks, Eric