Ok John..then if the registry slows up/bogs down Windows..then cleaning up the registry should speed things along, ko-rect????? Jackie In a message dated 4/15/2000 12:25:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << It really boils down to the kludge that is the windows registry. The longer your machine runs (especially when you install lots of software), the larger that beast gets. Windows will always keep the whole thing in memory, so you can see where things get slow after a while. >> ======================================== Avenir Web's Computers Mailing List List Modes, Subscription, and General Info: Go to http://avenir.dhs.org/mailing.html List Archives: http://avenir.dhs.org/archives/ Administrative Contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Get computer help: http://avenir.dhs.org ========================================