Hi All, Well, I reinstalled 9.1 clean this time, and it is a bit faster than running under the upgrade, but still noticeably slower than 8.2 was. The clean install definitely helped. I know this is an old box, but, I would have thought 9.1 would be at least as fast at 8.2, but it is not. Boot time, is about the same as before, but loggin into KDE takes a while. Once its running the system is almost usable. Not sure if I'll keep 9.1 on this box or not. Definitely not putting 9.1 on my server yet. So far I like the features in 9.1, samba is much easier to set up, and small things like setting up ntp is a snap, took me quite a while in 8.2. Still looking around. Anyways, thanks for all the good help and suggestons. Greatly appreciated. Jim Flanagan