Thank you all for your responses to my question. As far as a new hard drive goes, well, I'd like to find a different solution if possible--though I don't rule out getting some more memory. As far as Delphi Configuration Manager goes, yes I'm familiar with it. In fact, I would recommend it quite highly. I recently upgraded to Delphi 2006, though, so DCM isn't (yet...hint, hint Jeremy :-) configured for this latest upgrade.
Rob, I tried your suggestions and was very hopeful they would work. Everything seemed to be working well--restarting D2006 I found only my minimal list of packages loading, and when I opened a previous project I found only the packages I wanted were loaded. Good! ... However, when I then started a new VCL Forms application I found *all* the packages loaded again. If you've got any thoughts about what I'm doing 'wrong', I'll continue to listen carefully. And in the meantime, my sincerest thanks to all three of you for taking the time to respond to my question. I really appreciate it. -- Al _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi

