Firstly, thank you for the suggestions, I shall be working on the PC this morning. Secondly, I do apologise for not giving more information. It was nearly 11:00pm and I was tired. I had been working on it on and off since early afternoon. I did try Google first but with a slightly wider search. Again, blame it on tiredness (and this stinking cold I have). The install is a standard install - I let SuSE get on with it and use the defaults. I suspect shrinking the root partition may well help so it looks like I may be best off re-installing. No problem especially as I now have another 512mb of RAM to put in the PC. That should speed things up a little :-) I hope... Ok, down to work. I will give the suggestions a go and report back. Again, many thanks. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR