Hi ALL,I thought I would share this tip with you all that has worked for me. :-)SAFE MODE and all other attempts at loading WINDOWS 7 BETA failed when I proceeded as follows. Press the F8 key while booting to get the advanced boot menu. Select the repair option at the top of all of the options. Open a CMD COMMAND window. Type in the following .>> BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD Type EXIT or close the command window. Restart the computer but select SAFE MODE. If step 6 is successful then shut down windows properly from the START menu. Switch on your computer again and try BOOTing or loading WINDOWS 7 BETAas normal. Regards,JohnP.S. Prior to the above I was getting various things happening like the LOGIN screen was freezing / WINDOWS 7 BETA freezing immediately after typing in my password / a frozen WINDOWS screen but no moveable mouse pointer ( just the WINDOWS 7. For Testing Purposes Only. Build 7000 as usual in the bottom right corner ).For links to VB.Net tutorials see here.>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/29f2179b-997b-4115-a96d-a0834853b835