"Yes, I get that too, slowing down till it almost stops. I also get icons disappear within the programme, and on odd occasions when I've scrolled down to the Windows taskbar the tooltips appear all black with no writing" Yes, that exact same thing happens to me as well. If you right click on the toolbar, the pop-up is blank until you mouse-over it ... and even then it does not "draw" correctly. This would indicate to me some type of resources leak for sure. And it is JUST VUE ... nothing else does this of course. And believe, it is REALLY, REALLY hard to make Win2K (aka "The Earth's Best Operating System) to lose resources and behave badly. -Tim