Win2k Pro is probably the best of the Windows OS's out there so far as graphics programs are concerned. All the eye candy that they shoved under the hood in XP can get into some serious virtual pissing matches with things like Vue, Poser, Max, Truespace, etc. Yeah, I was kinda surprised when I didn't -need- anything in that null runtime folder, actually...not even the directory tree for the libraries. And P5 comes up in about 16 seconds with it. I did mis-state one thing, though. -Switching- the runtimes doesn't involve any time delay; P5 will only read a new runtime library when you =open= it for the first time that session. So there is no delay in switching runtime banks, and if you only open, say, the character library, then the only read time involved is for -that- library...so you don't have the time penalty for the whole runtime read that you get starting with a loaded runtime.