I am using emacs on windows (version 23.3) and it works just fine. As soon as I connect to my Checkpoint VPN (VPN over https using checkpoint ssl extender 7.01.0000) , emacs becomes unusable, because every file interaction (load, save) freezes emacs for about 1 minute. I have not been able to find any information in the messages of emacs on the cause of this problem. Searches in google didn't lead to any more information either. Perhaps you can help me to pinpoint the cause for this problem and how to get emacs to work again with vpn active .. Thank you for any help. Best regards, Andreas Bellmann In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: EN value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: cua-mode: t global-linum-mode: t linum-mode: t recentf-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: x r e p o r t Recent messages: Loading ekeys...done Loading c:/Users/abellmann/Dropbox/emacs/lisp/modes.el (source)... Loading c:/users/abellmann/.recentf...done Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed) Loading c:/Users/abellmann/Dropbox/emacs/lisp/modes.el (source)...done Loading c:/Users/abellmann/Dropbox/emacs/lisp/modes-win.el (source)...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort flyspell ispell mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug cua-base linum org-remember org-datetree remember org byte-opt warnings bytecomp byte-compile advice help-fns advice-preload org-footnote org-src org-list org-faces org-compat org-macs time-date noutline outline easy-mmode recentf tree-widget wid-edit easymenu server emacs-type cl cl-19 tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs) Andreas Bellmann Senior Architekt Tel: +49 (711) 13984-242 Fax: +49 (711) 8666301 Mobil:+49 (172) 2715755 abellmann@heiler.com Heiler Software AG Mittlerer Pfad 5 - 70499 Stuttgart www.heiler.com Management Board: Rolf J. Heiler, Dr. Wolfgang A. K?stler, Frank Schmidt, Dirk H?u?ermann Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Antonio Schnieder Registry Court: Stuttgart District Court, HRB 20399, German VAT ID.DE 146023553 [Heiler Software] Subscribe to http://blog.heiler.com to read recent articles on Multichannel Commerce, PIM, and MDM.