Hi Mary, I have an array of old Macs, from Powerbook 165, down to a IIfx, and something else somewhere. I can't remember if you can use an old version of Speeddisk -- that has certainly helped my IIfx from time to time (it defragments stuff). As for browsers, I have no idea what AOL is like: I use Netscape 3.01, which is the lowest I can get away with (you can still get it, and lower, at Netscape archives). Any higher, and it begins loading slower and slower. I have also found that, if you start off, before launching your browser, by dumping everything in your "Cache" folder (AOL probably uses some other name) -- that is, all the files saved automatically by your browser from the last time you were online -- things usually go faster. Other tricks would certainly interest me!!