Hi group, In my struggle to break free of Windows, I'm giving SUSE a second try this week, having tried 9.0 a while back. The first time I installed 10.1, I selected Gnome as my interface. I realized I needed to install the NVIDIA drivers for my GeForce card, which I was able to do from within Gnome using YAST. All my desktop fonts became clear and I was able to run 3D apps perfectly. However, a system restart or two after that the fonts became smudged and pixelated, and 3D acceleration quit working. Worse than that, the system performance began getting slower and slower, taking longer to boot up, and taking forever to respond to commands. I tried everything I could think of - primarily uninstalling and reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers repeatedly - until finally I could do nothing but reinstall SUSE. Another strange thing that happened at the same time was the system started booting straight into Gnome without requiring me to log in like it had before. I can't think of any change I made that would have caused that but I had the feeling the problems were related. Now I've reinstalled SUSE (using KDE this time) and once again everything looks and works great. I have not yet installed the NVIDIA drivers or done anything past the initial installation. I'm afraid the problems are all going to happen again, and it's pretty much exactly what caused me to stop using SUSE 9.0. My questions are: - what could be causing this? Why would the NVIDIA drivers work one moment and not the next? Since I used YAST to install instead of doing it manually via the terminal, it seems I shouldn't need to reinstall the NVIDIA drivers every time I update the kernel, which otherwise would have sounded like a possible cause. - Is there a way to set a system restore point - like in Windows XP - to go back to if things go bad? I feel certain I will have a variety of similar problems while I continue trying to learn Linux, and reinstalling SUSE every time is not an option. Thank you all for reading this - if I can clarify anything to make my problem more soluble please let me know and I'll do the best I can. Regards, Alan