are you using a 64bit os ?deep16 said:the one thing that has been improved noticably is perfrmnc and ram usage tuning.... i run a laptop wth core dup t2300 1.5 gB ram and 320 gB hdd.. aftr sp1 it all runs very smooth... btw for best perfrmnc always format with an iso with intregrated sp1. dnt install a sp1 package on a running win 7..