I decided to defragment my laptop (Win2k on it) due to a noticeable slowdown in performance over the past couple of weeks, and I began with the 12GB partition that has Poser and a couple of small utilities on it. I was amazed to see a sea of red (red = fragmented blocks of the partition) there... about 80% fragmented total. I let the thing run, and it took roughly an hour to defrag about 5GB of stuff (that's the second amazing part - I actually have 5GB of stuff, 90% of which was Poser...) The machine has a 1GHz processor and 384MB of RAM; my last defrag on that partition was about 3 weeks ago. This led me to realize one thing: 'tis time to schedule these maintenance things more often for the portable! Fragmentation accounts for a lot of slow-down and wasted resource on your machine, so it may behoove you to set aside some time to defragment your partitions... especially the one with Poser in it. I notice at least a 10% increase in performance every time I defrag the critter; sometimes more. (Win2k, ME, XP, 95, and 98 all have built-in defrag tools - NT 4.0 users can and should get Diskeeper for free off the 'net, though you should know that Diskeeper's free version can't be scheduled with at. In either case, they're lurking in your Settings menu.) Heh - By the by, my desktop doesn't have this problem... it runs nothing but Linux, and at last check (some time last night), /dev/hda was about .05% fragmented after a year of continous use :) Regd's, /P