Dear Michael, There are many reasons. Here are few.. 1> Go To Task Manager and View Applications Tab and Processess Tab. If two much of Applications and Processess are runnning. The whole system will be slow and most probably, it will take time to load your page. 2> There are some minimum/maximum hardware requirements for installing VS.NET. Check those requirements, whther you are fulfilling those requirements. 3> When ASP.NET application is running in Debug mode, the performance will be bit slow. 4> Since you are modifying the XML file. The file has to be stored and retrieved whenever required. So, it takes a bit time to do the process. 5> If you open many files inside VS.NET, the performance degrades in time. and so on... If you need more suggestions, ping me... Thanks, John Paul .A -- MTS-Software Engineer, Sharp Software Development India, Pvt. Ltd., Unit 5, Level 3, Innovator, ITPL, Whitefield Road, Bangalore 560 066, INDIA www.sharp.co.in Phone:91 - 0 - 94483 22577 >> I have system build on ASP.NET which is running in debug mode. Everytime i modify XML file under this system, it takes a long time to open a page again. It just likes open a page after recompile whole solutions. Does anyone know why it takes so long to reload a page after i modified a XML file? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael X.