On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:36:26PM +0530, Muruganandam wrote: > No sir, > This is for system speed.applications are opened very slowly. Please send these questions to the list not just to me. But in any case, I believe my original suggestion is correct. Having more memory (RAM) will help speed up application start time. Now, when you run something, your computer has to swap something else out to disk to make room, and that can be very slow. As I suggested before, could you send us the output of the 'top' command? This will help confirm my theory. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>