1st make sure disk is defragged and you have plenty of harddisk available for paging (virtual mem), 2nd get rid of fonts that are not used (for psp or any program that uses fonts actually), 3rdly if poser continues to be problem - is probably because of time it takes to load your libraries..... got junk that needs to be cleaned? Also, on your general preferences, do you have a default character that is compressed? That really slowed me down when I put V3 as my new default. So now I just open a plain empty window on my set preference. Good luck!