Adobe Bridge CS6 too slow!

Hello everyone,
Bridge is a great piece of software. But why is it so incredibly slow!? I have a huge database of graphic files and want to be able to browse them quickly. The cache size is already set to 500.000 items. Is there any other way to speed up Bridge?
Thanks!

Bridge isn't very good at browsing folders or selections with large numbers of images. As you noted, the cache building slows it down.
There are several things you can do to speed things up.
1. Build the cache as a separate task, before browsing.
Select the root folder of your images, then click Tools > Cache > Build and Export Cache (don't tick any of the boxes). This will generate thumbnail and preview jpegs in the cache.
2. Make smaller selections.
Don't select more than a few hundred images at once. Keep images in a folder hierarchy by date, location, subject, etc. Make larger selections by using searches by filename, keyword, collections, etc.
3. Keep Bridge and Camera Raw up to date.
There have been annoying bugs in recent versions of Bridge and Camera Raw, regarding layered TIFFs and thumbnail generation. Personally, I have ditched Camera Raw 7.3 and gone back to 7.0 because of performance problems.
4. Prefer embedded thumbnails.
Theoretically, Bridge will use your cached thumbnails and previews (or it may just forget some of them again) if they are available, even if you select "Browse quickly by preferring embedded images" from the toolbar. Selecting this option seems to help with the constant desire to rebuild some of the *@#%$* cache, and should help get your system back to its idle state more quickly.
You will find that browsing is faster/smoother if you wait for your computer to catch up with Bridge's demands. I have found that smaller thumbnails scroll faster while Bridge is working in the background.
I've probably forgotten something, but that should help a bit.

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I don't know why there's a problem seeing the content of my original post, but I am logged into the forum, not using email.
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Application Name:          Bridge.exe
Application Version:          5.0.0.399
Application Timestamp:          4f5ec28e
Fault Module Name:          Bridge.exe
Fault Module Version:          5.0.0.399
Fault Module Timestamp:          4f5ec28e
Exception Code:          c0000005
Exception Offset:          000000000036ae49
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          1033
Additional Information 1:          dca5
Additional Information 2:          dca5eef3eb4639786ac397e2f866e6e1
Additional Information 3:          ffe3
Additional Information 4:          ffe33cae3dc9a74a841b6be78d093ff8
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I've been very careful about having administrator privileges on both computers, and to my knowledge, I didn't install anything new between the time I installed CS6 and the time Bridge died. I'm very slow to update windows, after it wiped my partition and nearly cost me all my data and photos... I research like crazy, and I don't understand this. But I use photoshop and illustrator in combination with other programs so I can't have a situation where I can't be logged in as me using bridge.
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Adobe bridge is crashing for me before even starting.
I'm running as an Administrator on Windows 7x64 and using the latest version of Bridge, 5.0.2.4
It came with Adobe inDesign 8.0.2 which works perfectly, the only problematic app on the workstation is Bridge.
I do have a version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 also installed. I understand this was an issue that was supposedly patched by Adobe a year ago reading up on the forums but this problem still obviously exists.
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Windows 7 x64 SP1
Dell T1650
8GB RAM
Xeon E3-1220 V2
Crash log;
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
Application Name:          Bridge.exe
Application Version:          5.0.2.4
Application Timestamp:          50d99f7a
Fault Module Name:          StackHash_59c3
Fault Module Version:          6.1.7601.17725
Fault Module Timestamp:          4ec49b8f
Exception Code:          c0000374
Exception Offset:          000ce6c3
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:          3081
Additional Information 1:          59c3
Additional Information 2:          59c39f5460f96c9e8c0a2e4cf426da4f
Additional Information 3:          f054
Additional Information 4:          f054c556062bcb3c14c6b443b38515c8
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Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
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引き続き原因を探ってみます。

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Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          6/25/2013 2:20:42 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Tachyon
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Faulting application name: Bridge.exe, version: 5.0.2.4, time stamp: 0x50d9a019
Faulting module name: Bridge.exe, version: 5.0.2.4, time stamp: 0x50d9a019
Exception code: 0xc0000005
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Faulting process id: 0x15fc
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
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<EventData>
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    <Data>50d9a019</Data>
    <Data>Bridge.exe</Data>
    <Data>5.0.2.4</Data>
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