>> Which applications are taking a while to load? Firefox, Thunderbird, Eclipse, the KMenu, etc... >> I have the 8200 with 512M ram, 40G hard drive, and >> nvidia geforce 440 go, and the 1150 wireless card. Sounds like my unit. I upgraded the RAM to 1GB though. I've got mine setup to dual boot FC2 and XP Home. >>I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. Gonna back it >>up and load it tonight. Please do. My machine was running fine before the upgrade. Not sure what is going on now. Thanks, Norm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail