Normally before I shut down my 5.09 Iyonix, I close all on-the-icon-bar applications. At the moment that's generally not much more than Oregano2, FTPc, StrongED and the RAM disk. I press Menu over the Iyonix iconbar icon and click on Shutdown. I wait and wait and wait before the "machine will shut down in 5 seconds" box comes up. What on earth is taking so long? How do I diagnose this? Machine has one 120GB hard disk in it, plus CDRW, DVDRW drives and the floppy & card reader thing, but only rarely will any of those drives actually have been used. I wonder if disk maps (or something) are being written back to the hard disk, but if so why does it take so long? It's frustrating. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland - my opinions are my own. --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support