Leon Sargent Jr. tapped out this message on 2/9/2003 4:58 PM >Why is it that his slower system takes half the time to load and get to >the log in screen than my system does? Why does he have less wait >states and a much perkier application and over all GUI experience than >I do. > >I have deleted all the plist files that I thought might be culprits. Have you allowed all the CRON routines to run? If not, leave your Mac on at night without sleeping it and see if that helps. Start up with the shift key down, and run DFA to repair permissions and see if that helps also.