Hi All (again), I posted a week or so ago with the battery-remaining-time problem since upgrading 10.2.3. Thanks for the replies. I also stated that the kaliedoscope icon came up more than usual..seems like everything processed slower. I loaded iPulse (a great program) from the Icon Factory that shows processor use, disk access, etc...doesn't neccessarily relate to the problem from what I can see. Thought it was just me at first, but..... it takes just under 10 minutes to cold boot!!! My old 603e with a 40mhz bus is faster!! It was a no brainer to load from the two disks. How could I have done something wrong? Help!! Paul