Just a postscript to the two recent threads on this subject. Having downloaded the 30 day trial version I installed it this morning on my Toshiba laptop and chose the option not to have it run automatically - preferring to try defragmenting a partition first. From the context menu of the c: partition I first ran an analysis which told me that there was heavy fragmentation and that performance would be seriously affected. The latter agreed with my experience, but on the other hand the Windows XP defragmenter has, for as long as I can remember, reported that the drive did not need defragmentation. I next set Diskeeper to do a manual defrag - it took 8 hours - which surprised me as the c: partition is 5 gb and holds only the OS, Office, IE etc. plus Documents and settings. It must have been badly fragmented indeed! Many thanks to steve for bringing Diskeeper to our attention. The current version seems to be a great improvement on one I tried 2 or 3 years ago. Douglas . -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq