>Randall,
>
>Your test is irrelevant. You need to try with a directory with a huge number of files.
>Try windows\system32. Also you need to give some mask, say *p*. I haven't run this test
>on this directory myself (busy at the moment), but I have 6K files there. It would be
> preferable to have this test on a directory with more than 13K files.

Ok. Dang. I can't find a dir with that many files. I'll try temp internet files...
Only a few hundred. Ok...using system32...
111 matches in Sys32 dir...
Checking with dir c:\windows\System32\*A*.exe....111 matches, too.
Sorry about not having enough files, Naomi.

Regards,

Randall