hey, thanks for the quick reply.

I am running on XP so my OS isn't the issue I think.

I have a gig of RAM and from my experience it should not be slowing this much with what I am working on.

Is there a way to check if I have a memory leak, and if there is, to fix it?

Also, can someone explain the swap file and how I check to see if it is large enough?

I tried working with no history (thanks for the pic, btw) but the problem still persists.

If anyone else has suggestions, I am more than eager to try them out.