Thanks.
I have what I call "RAM creep".
With 4G of Ram installed, my computer shows 3581 meg available. "Cached" is at 2620 megs used, and "free" is at zero.
To start off, I had opened Photoshop, some files, and watched my available RAM drop. I then closed PS, immediately "winning" a cool gig back; and then watched over 15 minutes as the gig was thiefed back from me.
Windows Explorer, as of writing, was only using 96k, svhost, 74.8k, and these numbers do no seem to increase with time. Simply, more of my RAM is "cached"; which slows me down considerably.
Michael