Hi
thanks for your reply.
I agree about clean installs. I've always done a clean install since Windows 3 even though it takes longer to get things running you certainly get to know the inner working of the OS.
I'm clearly going to have to look more into this problem. My picklist is running just fine its only the witness and citation windows that are affected. Size of database doesn't affect it, I have 22,000 but I tried with sample_uk and still they ran slow. I didn't have any problems under Vista, 32 or 64bit, but I'll sort it out eventually.
all the best
John