I have had this happen to me. I found running a repair on the jaws version installed help resolve this problem Robert To find me you can do the following. Skype id: rawest24 Aim id: rawest24 EMail: rawest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patricia Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:25 AM To: JAWS users list Subject: updating JAWS Hi: I just sent an e-mail off to support about an issue I was having in updating JAWS and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Of course, as suspected, they told methe obvious, which was something that I had already decided to implement the next time around, running the full install of JAWS. When updating JAWS on my laptop it goes through the update process, but then when it says configuring JAWS for your system and starts emitting the series of clicks it just sits there and you can't close the dialogue. On top of that, Windows pretty much freezes up, leaving you know choice but to hold the on-off switch for a few seconds until the laptop shuts off. Then, when you're finally back in Windows, JAWS continues with the install that it should have done in the first place, and then it says that you have to restart the computer so it can finish the install. This is without speech, though. JAWS initially starts when your computer starts but as it's going through the rest of the update it loses speech. It's doen that for every update that I've done on this laptop so far, and i've done it twice now. Has anyone else had this issue? I have yet to try it on my desktop. Patricia