Now i know what you're refering to MGD. That's the first i deactivate after installing MS Office :). Slows down startup and uses ressources for nothing .. yep. Windows-Caching is NOT deactivated .. it's set to server as you suggested (good thing that works since Win 3.1 if there's enough RAM). I was refering to that thumb-caching which i deactivated. Still there's that thumbs.db. Try to delete them? Just to see if Windows trys to rebuild them??? They definately are there ... (see hidden files is one of the things i activate always .. i love to see what is really there .. not just what Billy wants me to see). Btw.: no prob with global settings as long as i remember what i've done. :-) @3DGuy: swapfile is set to custom sized 1.5 GB minimum, max 3 GB. Had to do that for Windows assigned to much disc-space to swapping which i feel is absolutely not necessary with 1 GB of RAM. Or am i wrong with that? Thanks again. You're great guys! :-)