on 08.01.2003 12:09 Uhr, John Guy at john.guy at btclick.com typed vigorously: > I am not a UNIX guru and have no idea what the hell this is. > > But my cube crashes on a regular basis giving this as the excuse > I regularly do preventative disk maintenance etc but it still happens > usually as a result of a Microsnot application dying or sometimes when > limewire quits. > > Any guru's out there that can advise/suggest a remedy? Try doing a search of the OS X forums for "prebinding": http://forums.osxfaq.com and check this, taken off of Randy Singer's very useful site entitled "How to deal with Common Mac OS X Problems" (http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html): http://radio.weblogs.com/0100490/stories/2002/08/24/prebindingExplained.html Let us know how it goes, Chris Searles -- A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body.