The original complaints were Evolution takes 20 minutes to dl e-mail on a dsl connection. Solution : turn off spam checking. KBearSiteManagerdb always staring up. Konqueror takes 1 minute + to load. Solution : delete ~/.KDE folder and relog-in in KDE. Current state : KDE has been upgraded to 3.4.2 and still tends to be slower than 9.1 using 3.4.1. 2 minutes from start of log-in to usable desktop, apps are slow starting. HD UDMA was checked and turned on for the drive that Linux is on (Windows drive was properly set up ?). Currently using Gnome as GUI, which loads much faster 1/2 to 1/4 of the time it seems. Apps launch faster than KDE, much faster. Firefox - doesn't always load web pages when URL is launched from Evolution. Any thoughts? I'm wondering about uninstalling KDE and reinstalling it, but I want to make sure that every profile gets everything fresh from the re-install, including menu's. Mike