dude.......

Was not expecting anyone to help me as much as you did....... thanks mate

I am not looking to do anything major, I don’t intend to mess with settings or anything. My main problem was I started my full time job a few months ago and was hired as a .NET and J2EE developer. What they didn't tell me was they were in a lot of debt (it's so bad that when I started I was in a team of 6 now it’s a team of 1 - me). Anyway things have got so bad and the financial controller wants to lower costs and thinks software licences are too expensive so the majority of the licences are to expire and I need to find a way around it. Thought of Linux but the Laptop my work issued me is from a hire company and the hire agreement says that I can’t change or alter the OS or boot. So after further searching the net I came across Knoppix.

Anyway I guess you didn’t want or need to know that. Thanks for your help mate will get those books and try to get an understanding of all this stuff quickly.