my last email on this didn't go through, but regarding the message below. i think installing a distro on a usb stick would be your best solution. install a distro onto the usb drive, some distros have this as install option (fedora is one of them) this means that whichever firefox addons or personal settings you prefer can be saved, and this usb drive can be used on any machine. sim 2008/12/2 <staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk&gt;: Nope, this is purely a wired PC no wireless on it. I could and was prepared to do that until I found that this live distro was working :-) Ah, I should elaborate. I was actually apologising for being hypocritical on the Wolves list. I have about 4 PCs in my workshop that all run various Linux distros. This one in the house however uses Win XP Pro. There are bits of software that my kids use that are solely Windows stuff and I've never really been inclined to see if they will work with WINE or Crossover. However, I've always wanted to be able to use Linux on this PC so was forever trying the various live CD/DVDs all to no avail. Everything else worked great just not web at all. I can only assume it was something being blocked through my old D-Link router. The Freecycle bit is a plug in that has been written by a fellow Freecycle moderator that cuts about 2 hours work down to 10 minutes everyday. It runs a treat on Firefox in both Linux and Windows so that isn't a problem. The problem is that I can't install it and its preferences using a live disk. I like the thought of remastering an Ubuntu live distro though. Of course, I could always just dual boot :-) More than anything I'm just plain amazed that I can use a live disk properly now :-) -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire