Original message: > Hi Richard, > > If you're talking about speeding up the start up and new document > process for AppleWorks, you can clean out the Recent Files directory > as a large number of files in this folder will cause a huge slow down > when AppleWorks is starting up. > > Go to the following folder: > > Users: <yourusername>: Documents: AppleWorks User Data: Starting > Points: Recent Items: > > Open the Recent Items folder and delete all of the aliases in there. > > Now, run AppleWorks and see how much faster things are... > > smiles, > Jamie God, what a difference! Thank you a lot for this advice! Steff