RAM and CS, CS and ACDSee

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Libby_Collins
Oct 15, 2005
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I have 512 RAM. Photoshop CS Windows hangs at times and loads RAW slowly. What ram do I need, realistically. Am running antispyware, antivirus, firewall etc. Will increasing RAM speed it up and eliminate hangs?

Secondly, I often run ACDSee as a browser when PS is running. Is there a known incompatiability between these two programs. It happens the same way on my PC and my laptop both.

Tnx.
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Bob Levine
Oct 15, 2005
What ram do I need, realistically

RAM’s cheap and PS needs all you can give it. 512 is really the bare minimum if you want to run PS at any acceptable speed. One gig would be better and 2 gigs would be preferred.

Bob
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John Joslin
Oct 15, 2005
I run CS2 and ACDSee together without a problem.
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T_Mike_Hyndman
Oct 15, 2005
Libby,

Your AV,AS and firewall aren’t provided by Norton are they? TMH
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Libby_Collins
Oct 15, 2005
AV is Norton.

AS is Spybot, Spysweeper and AdAware
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Libby_Collins
Oct 15, 2005
Need to install RAM in pairs. So…can get 256/256 for total of 1 gig or 512/512 for total of 1.5 gig. Will 1.5 perform better than 1??
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dave_milbut
Oct 15, 2005
Will 1.5 perform better than 1??

of course. the more the merrier.
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T_Mike_Hyndman
Oct 15, 2005
Libby,

If you have the Norton AV disk, I’d uninstall it (I’d uninstall it without the disk! You can always re-install it if you feel the need)

From experience, Norton AV (sorry, Norton anything) is a notorious resource hogger, it gets everywhere. It’s MO seems to be to make the PC so slow and unresponsive that any self respecting virus takes pity on it and wouldn’t touch the PC with a barge pole. (ok, joke)

If you then see an increase in performance (you will, you will!)and to maintain your AV protection I’d take a look at some of the free AV progs available. WWW.Grisoft.com do a very good one. (Google for others)

Regards

TMH
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John Joslin
Oct 15, 2005
Although it is common to see Norton knocked, I have never had any problem of resource hogging with the plain antivirus program. There are other Norton utilities which may cause problems for some users but I have no experience of using them. To assess the impact of the AV program it can be disabled rather than going to the extreme of uninstalling it.
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Marcel
Oct 16, 2005
"John Joslin" wrote in message
Although it is common to see Norton knocked, I have never had any problem
of resource hogging with the plain antivirus program. There are other Norton utilities which may cause problems for some users but I have no experience of using them. To assess the impact of the AV program it can be disabled rather than going to the extreme of uninstalling it.

John,
Not until you try "Eset, Nod32" will you find out that Norton is heavy, demanding and not so good a protection. I used to have Norton till someone pointed me towards http://www.nod32.com/home/home.htm . I know also because my sister is running Norton and often when she installs a new program, she has problems. She gets a flag from Norton and has to re-install Norton. Cheers,
Marcel

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