Thanks to Joel, Mark and David for your assistance, I solved the problem by using the "msconfig" program and prevented many of the background task from running. I also purchased the latest version of Eudora Pro 5.1. The new Eudora program runs much faster, appears to release all of the resources when it is terminated, and does not seem to leak memory if left running all the time. As an added benefit my Power Management program action has been corrected. It would hang the computer if I set it to stop the hard drive. When I ran "msconfig" I discovered that it was loaded twice. I removed one of them and the PM works normal. Marv Trott PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml