Strange Phooshop behaviour on button press

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Diamanter
Jul 29, 2007
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When I press any button on the keyboard (including CapsLock and Win, but excluding Alt, Ctrl, Shift buttons) Photoshop starts tensely working with my hard disk. It continues all the time I hold the button and it finishes only after a second since I release it.

* I found this behaviour on Windows Vista only.
* Resource Monitor shows that photoshop.exe process reads the disk with about 500MB/min during button press. What is it trying to find?
* It happens even if no one window is opened.
* Performance settings (cache level, RAM, scratch disks settings) don’t influence this behaviour.

It makes some operation noticeable slower, for example, Space+drag works slower than Hand tool selected on Tool panel with the mouse.

It’s noisy, I heard this disk sound on XP only if the system has no resources dramatically.

My system: Core2Duo, 2GB of memory, Nvidia 8600, 160GB disk (Vista performance rating is 5.2).

How can I fix it?

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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 29, 2007
I don’t think Vista is supported by Phooshop.
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Bob Levine
Jul 29, 2007
What version of Photoshop? Anything earlier than CS3 is unsupported.

Bob
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Diamanter
Jul 31, 2007
Photoshop CS3. I tries to run it in "Windows XP emulation mode", but with no success.
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Diamanter
Jul 31, 2007
Actually, every operation (not only button press) causes 1-2 seconds of disk working. Overall performance is very poor…
I have enough of free RAM and more then 60GB free disk space.

I have similar problem with performance in Flash CS3 but I fixed it using "Windows XP compatibility mode".
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 31, 2007
Did you trash/reset Preferences as per the FAQs?

Aside from that, no ideas.
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Diamanter
Jul 31, 2007
Yep, Ctrl-Alt-Shift doesn’t help…
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Cleveland_Park
Aug 1, 2007
The best thing you can do is to get rid of Vista. It damned near put me out of business with incompatibility issues!!!
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dave_milbut
Aug 1, 2007
ok cleveland. i agree with you, but we get it. now please stop spamming every thread with this crud. <sigh>
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Diamanter
Aug 5, 2007
That’s fun, but CS2 works about 5 times faster with Vista for my configuration. Waiting for some patch or trick to repair CS3 on Vista…

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