My personal opinion is that you either have a very sick PC or a very sick poser installation. My 1Ghz athlon loads poser 5 in about 30secs (I have set prefered state to not load any initial figure to speed up the startup somewhat) personally I dont think its anything like pagefiles etc unless youve tampered with them , in which case Id suggest you select for windows to set the size automatically (if you are using xp or 2k). Poser has a horrible horrible horrible habit, from what I can make out of doing an extensive search of your Hard disk if it cant find the files it wants the more files you have the longer it takes to acertain they arent there (great). Theres a program in the freebies called "correct reference" that can help wiht a lot of these long search problems... roll on Daz studio .. (noone could make a worse job of finding files IMO).. Best wishes.