Good suggestions all, you may have something there on the RAM thing, I'm gonna kick it up a notch( add a new M/B) and see where that leads....no, I don't preview at all actually, but I didn't know it ate up that much space, good to know, LOTR. Maybe Santa will be merciful and bring me a new desktop! PC's have issues, too, I suppose...thanks all, great ideas, will let you know how it turns out.