On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 02:41 PM, Paul Miller wrote: > > 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? There are two problems that fit this symptom, either you need to run Fix Permissions or if you're on a network you might be seeing a delay while the Mac looks for Servers that are no loinger connected. Ask Randy Singer about this. He's got a great website on common OS X problems. Maybe the ListMom could consider putting that URL for Randy's Tutorial in the Headers for this list. I keep forgetting it. Jkirk I once thought about starting a club to discuss the philosophy of Fatalism. But then I realized that even if anyone came, they'd only come to steal the folding chairs.