Hi, I'm just about stillborn, never mind newbie! Anyway, my installation of 7.1 went well, I can access the Internet send and receive mail , fool around with desktop settings. etc. (much the way I was after switching to windows from DOS.) but now I have a problem that I haven't come across in the voluminous documentation that I've been reading. I know it's something I've done as it happened after I had to power down w/o properly shutting everything down (froze up on me in KDE while trying to use wine to open a windows file, still not weaned yet!). Now I can't log off normally at the shut down screen because the "OK" button is grayed out all the time whether in root or user. I can still use the 'shutdown' command which, unfortunately, I thought of after pushing the off button. I realize at this point it would probably be simpler for me to just to reinstall, especially since I probably would have difficulty following anyones instructions at this point in time. So, my question is, just how stable is 7.1? This was my main reason for switching to Linux and so far, through my own stupidity, have manage to lock it up quite a few times with greater consequences than I could have imagined. Thanks, Frank