Jim is still having trouble understanding why some of you guys get such slow results! AMD 1.4 Athlon CPU, 1 GB non-DDR PC133 RAM (now), DMA 100 Poser HD, DMA 66 System HD, Win 2K "no SR", (improved a whole second going from 768 Mb RAM!). Norton AntVirus on, incidently. - 43 seconds. I think a lot of you guys have too much mutimedia stuff on your computers, or something. If you have DMA 133 or 100 drives make sure they are actually configured and connected (they need a different cable) that way. On my box I had to first install the OS using the DMA 66 connection, then load a driver and reconnect the cable, haven't done that for the OS drive, yet. Poser might run faster on a separate physical drive from the one the OS is on, maybe, too, mine is set up that way. I have no other ideas! Incidently, if you do things like turning off the sidestepping little man you are just kidding yourself!