No-one has said anything about using both and a comparison!! Is Sibelius as long-winded as Finale? Do you have to use five keystrokes when with a little simplifying two would actually be enough? Are...

I should love to hear what people think who have used both Sibelius and Finale. My only experience of Sibelius is a very, very early version that was very limited in its ability. I have used Finale...

Ron, that's one of the troubles, actually. If I try to loak Finale just after booting up I get the problems. I have learnt to do other things first and then it's not so bad, it seems. But it's still...

Thanks for that Brian. I had no trouble with 2005 running on Windows ME. It's 2006 (running on Windows XP Professiona - although I can't remember which came first!) that is causing the problem. I had...

Hm... Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated. Sounds like it's a RAM problem. I only have 650MB of RAM and my computer is running at 1GHz. Not sure that it's worth upgrading my present computer....