Wow, how big is your envarc: after getting? I know Amiga file systems might be slow to find things, but when an application wants a setting, it doesn't touch the envarc:, just env: which is RAM based like the registry. The difference is you're extremely unlikely to have anywhere near as many entries in env: as you have in your registry. Finding a particular file should be almost instantaneous, even with the lack of processing horsepower in Amigas.