Mr. Patton There is a very good chance that your computer contains more information than it did before. A large chunk of you RAM is taken up by the programmes at boot-up. I have seen that a heavily loaded HDD also causes that problem. I hope this helps _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html