I had two mystery processes virtually lock up my laptop for 1/2 hour, (disk thrashing) before deciding that I didn't have anything on the system that should be doing that. The only clue I got was the names of the processes at the top of "top", and I didn't recognize them. Does anyone know what "dcsP43zCr" and "dcsaNhlna" might belong to? Or should I start tearing apart the firewall and go to DEFCON-5? Thx, P -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.