I can help you with the authorization thing. Go to control pannel and find regional and language options or some around those lines. Make sure that eeverything says in their default languages (Including log on options and unicode programs )are in english or spanish or whatever your license of jaws dictates. I had the same problems, and what happen was that the person that installed my win7 OS loved spanish (my native language lol) and he totally forgot about jaws. It was a pain. Best regards and hope this works, \ Yadiel From: Terra Syslo Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:09 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: settings to optimize windows 7 with JFW 11 I'm wondering if there are any settings I need to change in windows 7 as far as display and color settings to make JFW read better. Sometimes I will be arrowing down a list of items and jaws will read but it will say things like vertical scroll bar occasionally and occasionally just read some erroneous characters. Any suggestions? Also, I activated my copy when I got windows 7 installed a couple days ago, but tonight I booted up the computer and JAWS was telling me I needed to activate or it would run in 40 minute mode. Anyone have any ideas as to why this would be happening? Thanks for the help. Yadiel Sotomayor yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx