Thanks everyone for your speedy respones. The clock question I seem to have resolved. Now when I click on the time, I can see the day of the week and month day year in the menu. It is greyed out but at least visible. The OS 9 issue is a little more disturbing. If I load my pre X apps on a separate partition, will I be able to use them with no system folder on that partition? TIA Regards, Stu Visit my homepage at http://www.prontomail.com/Prontomail/users/stuart1 ______________________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-mail at http://www.prontomail.com