Hi Lou, I did forget the little problem with 4.50 that caused us to have to control N to open a new brouser window when accessing a link from within an email message. Also, I have experienced a bit of what yyou are talking about on a very few web sites trying to get jaws to stop speaking, but that's only with 4.51 as far as I can remember. As far as general sluggishness I haven't had much trouble with that at all with the exception of the security patch that was posted here last week. If you didn't see that you may want to try un-installing the old versionandrun windowsupdates to getthe new version. That has made a difference with my machine. It will be listed in add/ remove in the hot fixes with the number 811493. That was posted by Bob Tinney a few days ago. Other than that I can'tthink of many things that wouldcause the system to be sluggish. You already mentioned memory and that could be possible but I would thinknotpropable. I would seriously look at the display settings and the patch I mentioned. Gary Gary Jackson kk5ge Phone: 409-962-0353 [log in to unmask]