Hi Ekhart, Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 1:04:39 PM, you wrote: EGlnl> I haven't done anything of the sort. Haven't had time. Read in one of EGlnl> the Dr. Gizmo texts i sent that one shouldn't fool around with the EGlnl> swapfile in XP because the days are over when that was necessary. Have EGlnl> heard other opinions on that though. I had to increase my swapfile size, since my system regularly handles huge files, and would occasionally tell me that it was increasing the swapfile size. EGlnl> Tried Bootvis but heard it no longer does anything except diagnose. It's EGlnl> boot speed up features are already automatic in XP. Take a look at http://www.autopatcher.com/autopatcherxp.html -- I ran it, and one of the options was BootVis. I don't know if it was BootVis or something else, but my system boots up noticeably faster now. --Scott. -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.