I've recently noticed that Premiere has been running very slowly and I wanted to know if the problem could be any of the following: Low disk space (I have a 120 gb drive dedicated for video editing, with 80 gb free, a 10 gb drive dedicated for my OS and such, with 5 gb free, and a 90 gb drive for programs, music, pictures, with 40 gb free. I have a gig of ram and I'm using Windows XP Home Edition. Premiere has run smoothly up until the past few weeks and any help would be greatly appreciated (I have a project due in 2 weeks and this is really slowing down the process). Thanks again.

with specs like that i doubt its a hardware problem. Is anything else running slow? A likely culprit is spyware, if you are on broadband they can really bog a processor down in the background, and you may only notice when running processor intensive apps such as premiere. try adaware (it's free) from www.lavasoftusa.com .

Next question - have you changed any settings at all? Maybe anything video related? Many people experience benefits from turning hardware acceleration off on the video card if you have a basic one. Worth a shot.

finally, what else is running by default on your machine? ctrl-alt-del while premiere is running and write back what your cpu usage and such is at. How many running processes are there?

Write back and we'll go from there, good luck!