Hello!

The 2.9 Beta was delayed for Classical Mac OS due to a problem with the installer but it seems to have been fixed by today and it should be out very soon. But I would not recommend you as a beginner to become a beta tester instead you should wait for the full version.

There is alot of potentionall sources for your LW to behave like sirap. For instance:

To little physical RAM (320MB is recommended if you want to turn off Virtual Memory LW hates VM).

Update your MRJ to latest version 2.2.5 and after installation assign atleast 32MB of memory to it.

Your HD might be slightly fragmented. Run a Disk Tool like DiskWarrior to check for errors and if errors is found run the disk tool to repair it.

If you are connected to a bad Ultrapeer you will see this slow effect. If LW is working perfect and suddenly starts to become very slow and unresponsive just abort one or two Ultrapeers and see if the slowness lasts.

Dont run other CPU hungry apps at the same time as LW. I usually run IE,LW and MSN messenger and iTunes at the same time without a problem. But apps like Photoshop should ofcourse not be active at the same time as LW.

If after this LW still runs slowly then you might want to use a Anti virus app like Norton to check for any virus on your system. The SubSeven trojan (almost the only virus out there for Classical Mac OS users)usually delivered by mail is famous for draining system resources down untill eventually destroying your HD.

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!