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Dear BB Experts, I hope you can offer some advice to a Bridgeboard newcomer who is badly in need of it. The newly fitted 386 bb in my 030-2000 has 4-meg of extended memory and boots off a 32 meg partition on my Amiga HD. I did not expect lightning performance from a 25 mhz 386 but had thought Windows 3.1 and WordPerfect for Windows 5.2 would at least be usable. Both look good (!) via the VGA card and switch-box on my NEC 3D monitor but take an enormous amount of time to load and are then practically useless as even a mouse movement or single key depression sets off anything up to 5 minutes of frantic HD activity. I assume the problem lies either in the memory management or the "swap" files Windows creates on the (very full) disc. Is there anything I can do to improve matters? So far, I have installed Stacker to compress my PC partition, am using Smartdrive but not on double-buffering, have MS-DOS working in High Memory, files set to 20 and buffers set to 30. Sorry if all this is really basic stuff but it`s driven me made for the last 3 days trying to find some way of "optimizing" the system. Am I just asking too much from the board…do I need a PC-Hard Disc….is there something obvious I am missing in the set-up (I hope it`s that as I don`t think the bank balance will stand any more kit!). Any help would be really appreciated. Tony