[photoshop-beginners] Re: PS3 speed

Slow usually means Ram or Hard Drive space. Most laptops came with the minimum ram installed 5 years old older you may only have 512 Megs. You'll need at least 2 gig of ram for PS to run decent. XP uses 500 Meg by itself.

If you need to upgrade the HD get no less than 320 gig. Currently that runs about $70 online.

Please give us more specs on what your laptop is/has.

Matt

--- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, "ValsWhimsy" <valdassi25@...> wrote:
>
> When I used to use Paint Shop Pro, everything I did was very fast. Before I
> installed PS3 Extended, I did a good clean-up of my laptop, uninstalled
> several programs like PSP and its Animation Shop, and some other stuff that
> just needed to be really cleaned up. I have a background defragger that
> defrags as I work, so quite a bit of junk stays cleaned up anyway.
>
> With PS3Extended, everything is soooo slow! From start-up, to opening any
> image, to duplicating an image, to opening a new, empty, transparent window
> ... What is the deal? I'd tried using PS before but got frustrated trying
> to learn it because it was so slow then. So I had at that time uninstalled
> and gone back to PSP.
>
> My husband has always used Adobe PhotoShop, and was flabbergasted at how
> slow mine is ... And I have a big, graphics-oriented laptop. He then
> proceeded to tell me it was all the "junk" I have loaded on. Well, aside
> from Microsoft Office, Incredimail for mail, and some small programs used
> for work, the only thing on here are graphics themselves and utility
> programs like Kaspersky and the defragger.
>
> Anybody else experience very slow PS, and did you find a way to speed things
> up? It gets very time cosuming to wait 30+ seconds to do each and every
> little thing.
>
> Valarie
>

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