hold down f5 to stop the autoexec from loading and start up in safe mode :) theres somethin like that for mac to turn off the extensions... >Cm'on give me a break. I have programmed in asm c, java and all sorts of >languages, but I mean that you have very little control over the os and >system. If your system crashes when the os loads there is no way to prevent it >from stoping loading the os