My main HD seems to have got kind of sluggish lately... to improve things I carried out the Disk Permissions Verify/Repair thig which helped a little. I seem to remember from the past that there was some other system programme to run to help things but cannot remember what... can anyone help? I am running 10.4.11 on a MacBook with 1 GB memory. Paul --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>