Smallspace, Ok, I'm game. I'll give it a try later when I have to be away from my PC, with one of the options, and I'll try to fit in another one of the tests when I go to bed tonight-- let the ol' PC "do it's thing", ya know. WHAT?!? You ONLY have the 1 GHZ? I thought everyone had upgraded to the 2GHZ Athlon by now- I did, and I can't believe it's speed.... 'scuse me, I'm dreaming out loud again. ;) 600 MHZ Athlon here on Windows 98 SE I'll let you know the results no later than tomorrow morning. It sounds like an interesting test, and I hope I won't be the only one to try it. Cheers, Mike