... It depends upon whether they left tasks like downloads from the Internet or video-encoding operations going. If so, those tasks continue to run ... Also, watch out for things like wallpaper-changing, applets, and other stuff that keeps running and consuming CPU and/or memory in the background. One or two are fine, but if you have 3 other users with 10 each, that's 30 processes running and the overall drag can add up. Craig