I found out why my launches were slow with much dock bouncing: >> Solved this nuisance. Somehow I had fouled Directory Access settings; >> NetInfo was looking for a non-existent parent directory. Lotsa bouncy, >> bouncy and waiting for programs to launch? Check your Directory Access >> settings. Carol Weber Mckee <carolwm at netins.net> asked: > How do you do that? Directory Access is found in the Applications->Utilities folder. The help file gives a pretty good explanation of how it works. ------------- Steve St-Laurent <st-laur at holecomm.ca> <http://www.holecomm.ca> Hole-in-the-Wall Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada