Greetings, In preparation for the move to X -- precipitated in part by a clearly failing hard drive --, I just installed a Baracuda. Nice disk. But for the life of me, I can't recall how I tweaked the system (or Explorer) to keep Explorer from choking up the whole works when I've got a dozen web pages open. It's not IE or machine memory, and I've set connections in the IE control panel to maximum, and turned off animated GIF. Driving me nuts! Cheers, Erik -- ########################### Erik Ness <erikness at tds.net> 608-242-7604