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Very slow Photoshop Elements 5.0

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slowbob

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Jan 13, 2009, 2:36:08 PM1/13/09
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Purchased subject software a while back. When I download it to my Dell Dimension the program works
but is extremely slow and even when I'm not using PS the computer slows down to a crawl. I've used
other complex image software without problems, but at this point after three download attempts I have no
choice but to remove PS entirely. I have plenty of hard drive space and memory. Brilliant insight will be
appreciated.

mick

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Jan 13, 2009, 2:53:26 PM1/13/09
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I found it needs plenty of memory 512mb is hopeless, 2Gb is sluggish
and 4Gb is ok. It was very slow opening the drop down menus, but once
running it was bareable. Version 6 I have found is much quicker speed
wise.

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mick


James Silverton

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Jan 13, 2009, 4:14:27 PM1/13/09
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A lot of memory has been needed since version 3.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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Geoff. Hayward

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Jan 14, 2009, 7:05:27 AM1/14/09
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"mick" <no....@junk.mail> wrote in message
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Mine has always run fine on 1Gb of memory. Worth asking Adobe? Geoff.
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Dave Cohen

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Jan 14, 2009, 12:39:43 PM1/14/09
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I'm running version 6 with 1gb less video sharing. It launches a bit
slow, loads an image horribly slow, but after that it runs fine.
Dave Cohen

slowbob

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Jan 16, 2009, 11:55:32 PM1/16/09
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"Geoff. Hayward" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in
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> Thanks to all for taking the time. Food for thought.

Bartok

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Feb 7, 2009, 10:31:13 AM2/7/09
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I've run Elements v5 on a 7 year old 1 gig system with no speed problems at
all. The program loads fairly fast and loading and working with images are
almost instantaneous. I think you should look at other areas in your
machine for potential conflicts.


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