At 08:08 -0400 15-4-2003, b wrote: >look for: >com.apple.systempreferences.plist >and >com.apple.finder.plist > Flipper - I followed the various suggestions (mostly from you) about possibly speeding up the finder loading. I deleted com.apple.finder.plist I deleted com.apple.systempreferences.plist I searched and found 286 .DS_Store files and deleted them Ran System Optimizer X 4.0 Started with CMD-S, ran fsck -y twice (until Vol is OK appeared) restarted my Ti-500 three times Unfortunately, did not see any faster start-up time (my has de-generated to about 1 min 20 sec, measured from appearance of Apple on greyscreen to first bounce of auto-starting aplication).