>>I want to make sure I understand. You found that by not having the "super" include file, by giving different modules specific include files that the build went much faster. Is that right?

My build time is now down to 8 seconds (from 160) on my old dog. I'm not sure where the last boost came from but I'm not complaining. :-)

I still have my master INCLUDE (.H) file refernced by all the main modules so I don't have to think about which DEFINE values I am using.

>Yes. But try your new HW first <g>.

Sub-second build time with the new HW? I'll let you know.

>>My old computer had two hard drives so that I could back up from one to the other frequently. I will try using both.
>Having more disks can seriously speed up some tasks - unless it is a laptop, every machine here has at least 2 disks. Keep an eye on how you partition / install your sw...

My old Dell has been rock solid. I'm going to try running both computers side by side with shared directories.

Peter