Hi, The process kded uses around 88% CPU with just 2 consoles up nothing else on. Is there anything I can do to get better performance? I was running Mandrake 9.2 just fine before (Pentium II 350Mhz old but still!!) Please let me know Brigitte ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.