I have the same problem, but I still don't have any solution. BUT! Yesterday, I moved all my "readme" files, all my 3ds, obj etc.. to another harddrive. In other words, I cleaned my poser4 directory from all sort of "polution" and it seemed to helped a bit. The speed could be better thoug, but still it helped. So my advice is to strip any file that don't belong in the poser directory! Hope it helps you Djuke