seems to is when the laptop has to use a lot of Windows virtual memory, as it does a lot of extra disk hashing that Linux wouldn't have to, Windows being the memory hog that it is. ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------