Hello Group; Thanks to many helpful comments we eliminated (so far;-)) the "out of resources" pop-ups. The Startup has only the following items checked: System Tray, PCHealth and StateMgr (for ME system restore), CreateCD50, AdaptecDirectCD. Items left out are: ScanRegistry, Taskmonitor, Multimedia Keyboard, SSDPSRV, MMTray, LoadPowerProfile, TCASUTI.exe, MOSearch, MDM7, Ctfmon.exe (the latter disabled through Add/Remove Programs / Office XP/Remove Features/Office Shared Features/Alternative User Input/Not Available). Unchecking MOSearch and Ctfmon made a real difference, so did running scandisk and defrag. Cheers, Irena. ------ Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml