Hey Craig,<br><br>Do I have the solution for you!<br><br>If you must use nautilus, you can give this as a command line argument to stop it loading the desktop in the background:<br>$ nautilus --no-desktop<br>(add --no-desktop to the launcing command).
<br><br>Otherwise, Thunar is a very good file manager made for the new xfce 4.4 that will be released soon. It looks almost exactly the same as nautilus, but is smaller and faster. <a href="http://thunar.xfce.org/">http://thunar.xfce.org/
</a><br><br>Also, rox-filer is very good, but a bit different from nautilus. <a href="http://rox.sourceforge.net/">http://rox.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>Have fun!<br><br>-Ben