Hi, You wrote: Hi, Tom. You wrote: So, if you're running anything earlier than JAWS 12, go into configuration manager, go to Set Options, then Advanced. Uncheck the box that says "enable sleep mode" and click OK, then save the configuration. Isn't this going to be impossible for her? The minute the WindowsOS.jcf file is loaded, her speech will silence. She won't be able to navigate to the advanced settings box and the sleep mode box. No, I ran through this scenario early this morning and it talked all the way through. One point of clarification: I was not on the desktop when I loaded configuration manager, and I told the cf manager to load WindowsOS so I could make the change, and, as I said, I got no speech loss. If you try doing that from the desktop, all bets are off. Tom