Erik Ness emitted a stream of electrons translating into this: > 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 Let me tell you how I did it. I trashed it completely and never looked back. iCab (www.icab.de) makes a nice replacement for IE. And I still have NN 4.8 left on the hard drive. -- Scientists have found a virus of war with Iraq. It transfers genetically from man to man only. The patients' names are not disclosed yet.