Believe me, I don't touch what isn't broken!!! When I first ran into the problem, I assumed it was the infamous pagefile size problem, so I increased it to the maximum 4095. I suspect something else was/is going on though... BTW, my tech experience in computers in limited to VMS (!) and over in that world - page files and swap files are totally separate animals. I am assuming that in windows people are using the two interchangably and referring to the pagefile - which can be set under "my computer" properties... Thanks again, Lou