If you want a nice system monitor have a look at iPulse, slick little apps that provides you with all info on what processes are running, memory, and general info. This is shareware and for a reasonable amount is well worth it. iPulse uses skins and there are lots out there that you can download or you can download icon factory and make your own. Larry Zasitko On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 10:02 AM, david wrote: > On 2/17/04 11:46 AM, "Alexandre Leroux" <alexandre at leroux.net> wrote: >> > Before you do anything, I recommend that you repair your permissions. > If it > is still slow then create a new account on your machine. After logging > into > the new account, use it for a bit. (If you want to go online you'll > need to > reset the network configuration.) If it doesn't seem slow then you > know that > something in your usual account is the problem and you should then > take a > look at your startup items (are they all up to date?) and run a > program like > MacJanitor to clean up your caches. You might also want to use the > activity > monitor to see what process(es) are using up the CPU resources. > > david >