Quicktime and start-up with Snow Leopard...

I just installed Snow Leopard, Quicktime X seems to be a little choppy in HD (streaming video) now and also the start up is rather slow from re-start. I only have about 5% free disk space, will this help with lagging start-up? What about my choppy Quicktime when streaming??

Yes! And possible data loss.
Most here say 15% should be available.
See things in Freeing up Disk space.
Once you have freed it up,
Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption due to not enough disk space. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Disk Utility's Disk Repair is not perfect and may not find or repair all directory issues. A stronger utility may be required to finish the job.
After that Repair Permissions.
No need to report Permissions errors....we all get them.
  DALE

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