Ok once again I have a full start up disk. If I clear at least half of that my mail and finder are still as slow as ever in rendering tables and stuff in the message list views and in list mode in finder. How can I make things faster with out reinstalling? I don't want to go that rout. Not again. I have too much to focus on this week with mid terms coming up. Thanks. update: I've now freed up to 93 gigs of space but the darned thing is still slow especially in the mail program at rendering the table for my messages when I'm done reading a few. How can I fix this? Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me my info is below. MSN and AIM: marrie12@xxxxxxxxx website: http://music.marrie.org Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125