If you turn off the bouncing, apps will launch faster. It's an option in the Dock Preference Pane: Uncheck "Animate opening applications". That bouncing animation eats significant processor cycles. kunga10 (AIM) kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up Video sans audio on Macs) On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 10:00 PM, a l a n t h o m p s o n wrote: > takes my cube 6+ bounces to fully open word to the point where you can > use it - the plus is the time after the last bounce, but is still less > than a bounce interval until the window comes up.