>MS AS is using 16,808K of memory on my system.

I meant the CPU usage and {GDI, USER} system resources on son's 98SE are negligible. ;) Those are much more important than RAM usage on a 9x system. On this XP box I have a Gig of RAM so am not concerned about RAM usage. Opera sometimes uses 100 to 150 Megs of RAM if you have several pages {tabs} open!!