speed and configuration of hard disks, are they at least SATA? Suggest you find out about L2 Cache on AMD. The page file is what used to be called the swap file. It's the file dedicated to virtual memory. This is important for Poser optimization, some people put the page file on a completely separate HD than the exe and/or runtime, so it can read/write at the same time other disk functions are executing. ::::: Opera :::::