Hi Paul, I'm afraid I can't help you resolve the hardware problems you're experiencing with your netbook, but I can tell you how you can get your JAWS installs back. Go to www.fsactivate.com Choose the "Continue with product activation" button, then on the page that loads, select the link that says request a reset of the number of activations allowed for a registered user" By the way, you don't have to worry about the Safely Remove Hardware thing as it doesn't exist in Windows 7, you can just plug in and unplug USB devices. Hope that helps at least in part. Ed -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Roberts Sent: 22 September 2012 01:26 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] netbook advice needed please HI all, Apologies for the cross-posting as some of you will see this mesage three times but I feel it necessary to send to more than one list. Back in March 2011, I decided to buy myself a netbook. The reason for this was so that when I am away from home, I can stil access the internet and maybe check my Emails, via my ISP's site. Well,for the first few months or so, I was able to do just that, without too much dificulty. however towards the end of 2011, I noticed I was having dificulty in geting onto the internet. In december, attempts to access the internet failed completely and I was also getting seveal error mesages comeing up. A couple of months later, I took it back to the store where I bought it from and they sent it away to be looked at. As far as I can remember, there was some kind of problem wiht the harddrive of my Netbook. Once I had got it back, all semed to be OK, at least for the next three months or so. In june, whilst away, I had more problems with it and once again couldn't access the internet. two weeks ago, I atempted to charge up my netbook but noticed that the unit and plug wern't getting warm and so I took it back to where I bought it from. Today, I have once again gone back and this time, they have had a look at it and later on, phoned me to say that there were a number of problems with it and that the only way to solve them was to set it to the factory setting. Whilst this will probably solve the main problems with my netbook, I have a feeling I wil have to reinstall JAWS and the problem here is that as I appear to have used up all tocans on the JAWS 12 disc, I am not now sure if I can reinstal it again. Another problem I have encountered is that whenever I have plugged in either my dongle for accessing the internet or the portable CD player, I have been unabel to remove either in safe mode as the insert key on my netbook doesn't seem to work all the time. Consequently this has meant me having to just remove the above which I understand isn't the correct way of doing things. It's possible that my actions may have caused the problems with my netbook. Also, it seems that my netbook has put up sevearl error mesages up but JAWS doesn't seem to have been abel to read them. As a result of the above problems, I am feeling that I have not got the use out of my netbook over the past few months. On my netbook, I am using JAWS version 12 with windows 7. If anyone could please give me any advice on how I can prevent such problems occuring in the future, then please do get in touch. Your help with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks for reading. Regards Paul. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq