System slowed by Adobe CS?

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mig30m6
May 13, 2005
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Hello
Someone I know recently got the upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. They have a high end PC running Windows XP home edition and

it was running really, really fast until the Adobe upgrade was loaded. After that, the machine slowed down to a crawl. Let me get rid of the usual questions you would ask me: checked for spyware, viruses, perfect amount of RAM for this particular program, the drive is regularly defragmented and checked by disc utilities. There do not appear to be any hardware glitches. The prevailing theory is that there is something within the Adobe CS code that is slowing the machine

down. Another theory is that there is a memory leak in Adobe CS that has not been repaired. Last I heard, Adobe does not have a patch at this time.Is this a wide-spread issue or a one off occasion. Looking for thoughts and advice.
Thanks

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Ron
May 13, 2005
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Hello
Someone I know recently got the upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. They have a high end PC running Windows XP home edition and
it was running really, really fast until the Adobe upgrade was loaded. After that, the machine slowed down to a crawl. Let me get rid of the usual questions you would ask me: checked for spyware, viruses, perfect amount of RAM for this particular program, the drive is regularly defragmented and checked by disc utilities. There do not appear to be any hardware glitches. The prevailing theory is that there is something within the Adobe CS code that is slowing the machine
down. Another theory is that there is a memory leak in Adobe CS that has not been repaired. Last I heard, Adobe does not have a patch at this time.Is this a wide-spread issue or a one off occasion. Looking for thoughts and advice.
Thanks

Do you see this slowdown only while CS is running, or all the time?

Does Task Manager show CPU cycles being used by any
process other than System Idle Process?

Are any third-party PS plugins installed?

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