http://192.168.2.20/blogs/doverton/archive/2006/09/18/Is-Windows-SharePoint-Services-taking-ages-to-display-the-gallery-when-you-are-trying-to-add-a-web-part_3F00_.aspxThis is a quick one to speed up WSS when using it, especially when doing demos. The service by default will try to connect to the web to get the online gallery - remove this and things speed up amazingly :-). For into on how to change this, have a lookenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)