Yes. If I have Outlook running, and I sleep my portable, it is at lesat 3 minutes before I can really use it again after I wake it up -- especially if I leave it sleeping for several hours. It hits the disk _hard_. Looking at the process manager it is clear it is doing lots of paging. I have no idea why every page needs to be touched, and with 2 Gigs and only outlook running why the kernel decided to swap out so much (actually, I guess that might be the way sleep is designed to work)! Actually, also in IE's case, the long pauses almost always come while the disk churns. I hate it. :-) Cheers, Gordon.