Stuffit Expander is still free. You can download it from: http://www.stuffitsoftware.com/stuffit-mac.html?myvariable=aUS010#expander But it sounds like you have other problems, which might be why it isn't working for you. You should probably talk to a Mac expert (which I am not) about how to fix your system. Jan Werner ___________ Shel Horowitz wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS > 10.4.10. > > 1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a > sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not anything > over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it couldn't run > without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably vanished from my > computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no longer a no-cost product, > and nor could I find any competitors. Given how few files I need to > decompress, I'm not in a great rush to buy a file uncompressor. What > are folks using these days? > > 2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's > search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather than > a text string within documents? I could literally write an article while > it searches and I always forget to change it. Besides, it would save me > oodles of time reconfiguring it every day if I could default to what I > need for 98 percent of my searches. > > 3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for > several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but I also have 11.87 GB of > unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several minutes over > broadband to download the router firmware. Any recommendations to speed > it up? I was thinking I could off-load several gigs to an external > drive, and that might at least speed up iPhoto. is that a good method? > Are there better? > > 4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with some > mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to rescue, > Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find principledprofits.com" > (note the s in the domain--it's not in the actual email). The company > has closed its support department. Any ideas? > > Thanks so much,