[trebb]

I appreciate it - been hearing that Mint and Ubuntu are the most likely to be user friendly and that Mint is tops there.

I have a Win 7 machine with one of the "newer" bios setups and had trouble getting a Mint CD to load up to test it. - any hints on the "magic key combination?

[ThunderSleeps]

Typically it is Esc, or F1, or F10, or F11, or F12 pressed shortly after power on that let’s you enter bios setup and select boot device. Timing is everything....