<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I guess I wasn't very clear in the way I worded it the first time. I am the owner of this Ubuntu machine. It's a personal computer, and not a business desktop. So, if Ubuntu wants to make me think twice before it allows me to change something, then let it give me a warning message and ask for my root password; instead of making me do research, ask questions on a forum, and take a circuitous route in order to change what was already right in front of me. Ubuntu already does this, in some places. For instance, when you use Applications>Add/Remove Programs, it displays the following message when you try to apply a change. "Administrative rights are required to..." and then it allows you to enter your root password and continue. Yet if I've opened /boot/grub/menu.lst, figured out what I want to change, then tried to save (save as actually) the changes, it tells me this... "Could not save the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file. Please, check that you typed the location correctly and try again." ...when it could just as easily given me the former response. Ubuntu seems to be inconsistent in the way that it allows/forces you to accomplish system tasks. Hopefully, if enough of you agree, we can get the former method extended to as many functions as possible. Thanks for your time, MTYoung PS: read the post... "Change Permissions on a new hard drive to allow write...Problem Solved" ...if you want an easy way to get around these type of problems. </body> </html>