d>

> my "guide history" is vague.
> my hard disk is multi-partitioned:Guide is on disk E; disk c is
> windows Me, disk D is Windows xp; the rest is for other things
> Both win me and xp have been re-installed several times, but disk E
> with guide was never changed, bar updates
> i use guide from win me as well from win xp , with identical and
> general very satisfying results
>
> Neverthelees I tried alt-0 but no improvement.
> the change to summertime made, not surprising, also no difference.
> I tried also to set the computer to UT but i did not get any visible
> solar eclipses

Do you have Guide set with "realistic" checked in "Background" mode. Turn it to
"normal colors".

I just had XP installed a couple of months ago. I was using Me and found it was a
terrible hog of resources. With Me, my CPU was running at 60% capacity just
running a simple program with a few graphics. It would allocate as much memory to
the task as was available (over 150 megs) on a 1.5 cpu w/ 256 megs ram.

The same machine w/ XP uses about 10% of resource, maximum.

Larry Wood