On my Acer netbook (Celeron/2GB RAM) things proceed - Deliberately. Quite slowly, in fact. I'm supposing this is a hardware limitation; MPLAB is far & away the largest app I run - Am I missing something? thanks, Jack --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .