Now this is just a little curiosity which I want to share and maybe someone has seen it before (and maybe it is an alarm signal?) I noticed last night that my finder icon in the dock has 3 lines in it .. I would guess the graphic file is somehow corrupted .. But I have no idea how that happens .. The machine works otherwise fine, for days now (no, have not reset yet, I guess the phenomenon would go away doing that) I put a enlarged version of it on caipi.scandal.de/finder.jpg I just checked, the bars become very clear and visible when I turn magnification on for the dock. Weird ! Peter