I am running KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop. Everything runs normal while I'm at home. When I'm at school, however, some apps take an extraordinary amount of time to start (like 5 minutes). Once started, they seem to operate fine. Other applications don't suffer this same fate. Examples of applications that start slowly: o Open Office o Kate o Konqueror *this one isn't consistently bad Examples of applications that start OK: o Kmail o FireFox o Konsole o Audacity o Skype The only difference between starting my computer at home and my computer at school is that my ethernet is plugged in when starting at home. My internet connection at school is wireless. It is not started until I have fully booted (I start the wireless connection manually). Any suggestions where to look or how to begin troubleshooting? Or, better yet, anyone recognize this issue. TIA, Darren ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.