My FSP is locked at about 40 I think. I had it at unlimited but that seemed to be part of the problem. While I put it at 40FPS, it did help a little bit.I have FSX on the STAT drive and I disconnected the IDE to see if that helped. No noticable improvement.TurnipSPECS:VISTA Home Basic 580 WATT Sunbeam PowerCrucial Ballistix 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAMASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6550ATI Radeon 3870 512250 GB WD SATA HD 120 GB WD IDE HD[/url]

UPDATE: I got O&O and can't believe how much this new drive and new installation is fragmented. It says about 50%. My God! How can all new installs of everything be so fragmented. FSX's new install looks like swiss cheese. Bill Gates needs slapped around a bit. I am continueing to defrag as I speak. I sure hope this helps.TurnipSPECS:VISTA Home Basic 580 WATT Sunbeam PowerCrucial Ballistix 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAMASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6550ATI Radeon 3870 512250 GB WD SATA HD 120 GB WD IDE HD[/url]

Windows has for quite some time had a built-in defrag (basic Diskeeper)... I thought was included with NT 4.0 but Wiki says it started with Win2k. I still have a Diskeeper 3.0 for NT w/ a

What are the differences between those pay fragment software and the Windows build-in one?Vincent

The windows one is a joke Get IObit .....Its great and free