>Tommy,
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>>Go to your Config.Sys file and add FILES = 199.
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>>See if this gives these machines a boost.
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>I went ahead and did a FILES=250 on the problem machines (which have 128 MB of RAM, BTW) and it seems to help. If three very large apps are open and have a lot of files open, there still seems to be some stall, but at least two apps can be open at once now and it seems to work.
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>I will let you know if I figure out anything else, but thanks for everything so far!
>
>JoeK

Good... glad I helped a little.

Tommy