First of all, please excuse what is going to be a long tale of woe! Having just taken the plunge and re-flashed the new operating system (5.18) on my Iyonix, I was first dismayed that on re-booting there was an error message that ADFS was not found, and I was presented with a very basic desktop with no hard-discs. Pressing F12 & *fx0 told me that 5.18 was running ok. Having realised that ADFS was 'unplugged' & *rmreinit'ed it all was restored to normality on re-booting - with one exception: no Task Manager icon in the right hand corner, and F12 has no effect, so it seems I have no access to * commands. Thinking that perhaps a further re-boot might restore things, I tried again. This time there was a Task Manager icon, but in addition although the mouse pointer moved the buttons had no effect on anything on the desktop and there was still no action from F12. I then noticed the clock was stationary in Organizer so hit Alt/Break and stopped "Unknown". This at least allowed the mouse buttons to function, but I was still unable to access * commands because trying to open a task window from the manager had no effect. There seemed to still be something unwanted running, so again I pressed Alt/Break and this time selecting "Stop" left it highlighted without doing anything. I pressed Alt/Break again and this time selecting "Cancel" also left that highlighted. A further re-boot (where I am up to when writing this) and there is still no Task Manager, F12 has no effect, and to get this far I had to 'Stop' some 'Unknown' but at least most things seem to work! I had better post this while I can, and hope that someone out there can tell me what is going on, and how to restore normality. Please! John -- ____ /__ __________________________ /____Mail from mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . . . using RISC OS 5.16 on an XScale powered Iyonix computer. --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support List-related queries to iyonix-support-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx