Well, it is a rather old machine, 800mhz, geforce-2 PCI, 128 RAM (never got around to upgrading to 512), though the sound-card is quite new, a very decent phillips edge (I wanted sound-blaster but the price was out of my league at the time). I am not expecting this old betsy of a computer to be zinging fast, but I will try what you recommended, for I certainly don;t want to be outting the old-girl through more than necessary, I'm quite fond of her. Sounds crazy don't it?