From what I understand, you're running a dell dimension desktop with a 700mhz Celeron and 64mb of ram and you are running Windows 2000 Professional. The cpu speed isn't the the bottleneck here, contrary to what many people will say, a 700mhz Celeron isn't that slow and should meet most average user's needs without problems (even video editing and dvd copying can be done on pc's running with cpu's in the 700mhz to 1ghz range). However I would bet that 64mb of ram is probably a bare minimum for Windows 2000 professional and that's why the machine "crawls". Memory is cheap these days so it doesn't make sense to skimp out in this area. I would increase the physical ram to 128mb or better yet 256mb (or 512 or 1gb whatever you can afford) of ram and watch the machine run like a champ afterwards. You could even entertain a notion of installing winxp pro on this machine after the ram upgrade and you pc would still perform quite well. Based on my own experience at my office I have a few Pentium II 350mhz desktops that run win2k with 128mb of ram and they're able to perform at decent speeds while running office xp, internet explorer 6, multiple ibm as400 terminal emulation sessions, email, while running on a network. These PII 350 desktops are quite old and if they can run win2k without problems, your pc can do even better once the ram has been increased. Another thing to look for is harddrive space, make sure you have enough space left on the harddrive for ample page file room and defrag purposes (defragging your win2k/winxp pc on a regular basis will also help a lot as well). If you're running with less than 15% free space on your harddrive, performance will likely take a nose dive because of this as well. HTH....rob,wpg >>>>>Original message: Subject: Re: slow machine I can't seem to locate the cache to turn it on. The "custom" DELL bios does not 'display' the settings as I am normally used to seeing on 'regular' boards. In fact the bios shows very few settings. Is there another way? This Dell Dimension (Celeron 700) is slower than a P166. I can't figure out why. I have tried disabling/ enabling various "cache" types via bios, but I am not savy on cache. Basically machine crawls. What can I check for? alter? Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com