Here is my 2 cents worth. Try repairing permissions, that can help slow programs. Also a general rule of thumb is to keep at least 10% of your drive free as your hard drive is sometimes used as a swap file. Also defragging the drive may help as well. Chris Manhattan, KS clscott at interkan.net My G4 933 w/ max ram of 1.25 gigs is slowing down a lot. I running OS10.2 8and I do a lot of DV editing in iMovie 3.0.3 and that is very slow. I am down to about 7 gigs of disk space(out of 60). I really don't want to take off my working file at this time. Dave W.