huge cpu usage with text tool in photoshop 6

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Beth_Garst
Oct 27, 2003
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I am running Windows 2000, 256 meg of ram and one gig hard drive. I updated from windows 98 last week. Since then, when I use the text tool my cpu usage spikes to about 70%. All I have to do is click on a layer of text with the text tool and the usage spikes and stays there, even if I don’t type or edit. This did not happen with windows 98 running on the same system. Any clues?

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Robert_Levine
Oct 27, 2003
Did you actually upgrade the operating system by installing Win2K on top of Win98?

And I hope that the one gig harddrive was a typo because that’s not even remotely big enough.

Bob
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Beth_Garst
Oct 27, 2003
Sorry…one gig cpu. And no…I reformatted the hard drive and re-installed everything. I also tried re-installing photoshop today, but no change.
RL
Robert_Levine
Oct 27, 2003
Try trashing the prefs

Hold down the ctrl+shift+alt keys when you launch the program. When asked if you want to delete the PS setting file (or something like that) say yes.

Note that this will reset Photoshop back to factory defaults.

Bob
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Beth_Garst
Oct 27, 2003
Brilliant! It still spikes to the 90’s when typing, but when at rest the cpu usage drops to almost nothing. Thanks so much for your help!
RL
Robert_Levine
Oct 27, 2003
Sure beats arguing over product activation. 🙂

Bob

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