Adobe programs running slow

I recently bought the Adobe Creative Suite CS2 for my 12" Mac Powerbook G4 and when I am working in the programs it responds really slow. Is there a way to make it respond faster? Do I need to buy an extra hard drive or more memory or ram? Any information would be great!

Hi, Generally the more memory (RAM) you have, the faster CS will work.
Performance is also linked to processor speed, dual processors tend to be faster as CS is geared for dual processing.
Closing other applications whilst running CS will also help.
You can also create a scratch disc for CS under Photoshop> preferences>plugins and scrach discs, this creates a temporary space on your hard drive for CS to use, again speeding things up.
The main point being more RAM=more speed.
Hope this helps.

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The only thing that option should do for you is to replace the type defs with equivelent non-typed version and toss all of the polymorphic versions that are not used.
So if I focus on the replacing type defs part...
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No Adobe Program run

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Hi
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try launching the product to see whether it is working or not.
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I am running Adobe CC products on a Windows 7 64-bit system too. I also use McAfee anti-virus software as well.
For troubleshooting I would try first shutting down everything running in the background not required by right-clicking on the icons in the system tray and choosing quit or exit.
When launching the Adobe apps try right clicking on the icons and choosing Run As Administrator and see if that makes any difference
The Resolve product launch freezes or problems section of this document might help:
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Hello all,
I am new to programming. I’ve dabbled with VB.NET at times over the years but this is the first time I’m trying C#. Although, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done any type of programming other than writing SQL queries at work. For the sake of trying to
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Exccel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using System.IO;
namespace Bills_DB_DataGridView
    public
partial
class
Form1 :
Form
SqlCommand sqlCMD;
SqlDataAdapter sqlDA;
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DataSet sqlDS;
DataTable sqlDT;
public Form1()
InitializeComponent();
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void btnExit_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
this.Close();
private
void btnLoad_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
string sqlCon =
"Data Source = localhost\\DAVE_DB; Initial Catalog=Bills;Integrated security = true;";
string sqlQry =
"SELECT * FROM Acct ORDER BY Name, PaymentDate";
SqlConnection connection =
new
SqlConnection(sqlCon);
connection.Open();
sqlCMD = new
SqlCommand(sqlQry, connection);
sqlDA = new
SqlDataAdapter(sqlCMD);
       sqlCB = new
SqlCommandBuilder(sqlDA);
sqlDS = new
DataSet();
sqlDA.Fill(sqlDS, "Acct");
sqlDT = sqlDS.Tables["Acct"];
connection.Close();
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DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;
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EventArgs e)
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Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
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for (j = 0; j <= dataGridView1.ColumnCount - 1; j++)
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xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, 2].EntireColumn.NumberFormat = "@";
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xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, 2].HorizontalAlignment = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlHAlign.xlHAlignRight;
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releaseObject(xlWorkSheet);
releaseObject(xlWorkBook);
releaseObject(xlApp);
private
void releaseObject(object obj)
try
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);
obj = null;
catch (Exception ex)
obj = null;
MessageBox.Show("Exception Occured while releasing object "
+ ex.ToString());
finally
GC.Collect();
Thank you,
Dave
David Young

Hello again Kristin,
I tried the code snippet to include the headers in the Excel file but it didn't work for me. Maybe I put the code in the wrong place? Again I have put the code below including where I placed the snippet. I get no error message and the application runs. Am
I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Dave
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Exccel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
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        SqlDataAdapter sqlDA;
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        DataTable sqlDT;
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            this.Close();
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            string sqlQry = "SELECT * FROM Acct ORDER BY Name, PaymentDate";
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            sqlCMD = new SqlCommand(sqlQry, connection);
            sqlDA = new SqlDataAdapter(sqlCMD);
            sqlCB = new SqlCommandBuilder(sqlDA);
            sqlDS = new DataSet();
            sqlDA.Fill(sqlDS, "Acct");
            sqlDT = sqlDS.Tables["Acct"];
            connection.Close();
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            dataGridView1.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;
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            Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
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Hello,
I have a HP ProBook 4540s running windows 7 (desktop shows: Test Mode Windows 7 build 7601)
The HDD is a Toshiba mk5061gsyn 500gb
For the last month or so the computer has been running very slow. The computer has always booted/start windows a bit slowly. Now it takes about 3-5minutes to get to the welcome screen then it takes a couple of minutes to load windows. Soluto shows all the programs that are being loaded on startup. (I never messed with this). I've run several antivirus programs and the system is clean. Back in June I had the same problem but there was malware found, not this time.
I ran speccy and it shows "warning" under the S.M.A.R.T section. I used the HP system tools and ran the HDD test and no errors were found. When I tried using the HDD test from Toshiba and I couldn't run the scan test, it only showed the model name and serial #.
I'm not sure what to do next?
Thanks for your help in advance!

Please click on the below shown link to troubleshoot this issue
http://tinyurl.com/khbcqxg
1. Please "Turn OFF" the Notebook
2. "Power ON" the Notebook and keep tapping the Escape Key during the start up to enter the Start-up Menu
3. Now here, Please select the BIOS option [F10] and under the Advanced or Diagnostic tab
4. You should find the facility to run tests on both the Hard Disk Drive and Memory
Note: Please perform these two tests and post back with the details of any error messages
Please click the below shown link to find the steps for performing Hard Drive Test
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00439024
OR
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01443317
You can also Check your warranty Here to verify the warranty status
Hope this helps, for any further queries reply to the post and feel free to join us again
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I have looked but I don't even really know what to call this. But I can reproduce it everytime without fail and I don't understand.
Steps to Reporduce
Load up Safari (or chrome, whatever it doesn't matter, those two browsers have the excat same problem)
Do some browsing. Not much just check your email or something (doesn't matter what you do)
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Exit the application (just showing that the app was running while slow browsing)
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I have been dealing with this for a while. So I have discovered a few things before posting here
There is plenty of free RAM both Inactive and Unused in Activity monitor is over 1G (I have 8G total)
There is plenty of CPU "room". Nither core is anywhere near 100%
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nice-ing proccesses has no effect
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I have verified permissions (and repaired them, everything is fine)
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What I am looking for:
A fix would be nice
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Is illustrator running slow because of large file size?

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If you have a internal HD available, you can select it as a scratch disk...
the above dialog is from CS3, but you have something similar in your Preferences file.
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My Mac won't Shut Down and is running Slow

It began with my Mac not shutting down or restarting. The shutdown process will end with a white screan and the thinking icon in the center.
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Do I have a hardware problem?
A Virus?
thanks in advance for your help.
Jason
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac11,3
Processor Name:          Intel Core i3
Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          2
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:          IM112.0057.B01
SMC Version (system):          1.59f2
Serial Number (system):          W8****B6
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First question is how much free disk space do you have? Generally, around 10%+ is needed for OS X usage.
While you may not have spinning beach balls, see these two FAQs for things to check:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html

Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder running slow

Hello everyone,
I'm having trouble with CS4, which is running significantly slower than CS3 did on a older machine. The CS4 suite is installed on a Dell Precision M6400:
Windows Vista 64-Bit
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53 GHz
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
The OS is running on a 57.5 GB HD (C:) and the Adobe suite is installed on a 298 GB Solid State HD (D:), except for Adobe Media Encoder, which is installed on the C: drive.
My project has 4 15-16 minute sequences. The sequences are in DV NTSC, 29.97 fps, My scratch disks are set to a folder on the C: drive. Media Cache Files and the Media Cache Database points to a folder on the D: drive.
These are some of the problems I'm having:
- Premiere Pro CS4 generates peak files every time I open a project
- It then takes 3-5 minutes to render before I can preview a 16-minute sequence
- Adobe Media Encoder takes 5 hours to render a 16-minute sequence (as flv) that has been previously rendered
- AME takes 1 hour to render every 15 minute sequence that has never been rendered before
Are my settings affecting their performance? Is there any way to improve it? Thanks.
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The data rate for replay is one thing, the data rate from disk to memory then from memory to CPU and back the other way are different matters and ought not to be confused. It is well-established that for a computer to edit AVCHD you need top end components, and note that I said there were three tasks to distinquish with increasing hardware requirements, namely merely replaying the video, specifying edits in the editor and then the rendering. It is commonly accepted by all the industry vendors that to do remotely commercial AVCHD rendering you need a minimum Quadcore CPU then that eats data fast, in order to not let it go to waste you need a fast motherboard bus fast memory and in order for none of those to go to waste you need the fastest disk set-up you can manage. I in fact have a 4-disk RAID0 volume using SATA (I think the disk model is SATAII but I have to await return from the repair center before I can confirm). For this RAID0 volume I have run speed test software from BlackMagic because I have one of their HDTV capture cards. It recorded that this volume which remember is doing parallelised IO is just fast enough to receive a encoded HDTV stream from the BlackMagic card but too slow to receive an uncompressed HDTV stream, indeed when I tried both I found the volume did keep up with compressed but fell behind with uncompressed. Remember that with a RAID0 volume of 4 SATAII disks a given file gets spread over the four disks and hence IO is spread over those 4 3G/s data lanes. Also remember with these disks 3G/s is just a burst speed, for AVCHD we are interested in sustained serial IO which is much less.
Before my machine broke down, I found that it took 5 hours to render 33 minutes of HDTV albeit as it went along it transcoded from AVCHD to a Microsoft HD format for Vista-only. Another interesting thing is that I found that the longer this render ran the slower it became, the estimated time started at 3 hours but the actual was five and the last one third took maybe 3 hours. Because the machine broke after that run I couldn't figure the bottleneck. For my machine bear in mind that at the repair shop we found that the Quadcore had only half the necessary electrical power plugged in, the monitor software showed however that it constantly ran around 90% of whatever capacity that reduced power supply permitted. Now then we can puzzle over why it got slower and slower and yet CPU consumption remained consistent and near to full capacity, memory was not the bottleneck because that was constant at 6.4G. But you can say that this was maybe performing like a Dualcore and was hitting some sort of wall, if you had a 1 hour render with that rate of degeneration of performance factored in what would happen to the render time, and for 3 hours you could be running indefinitely. I hope when the machine comes back the correct power supply will make it behave like a Quadcore should for this type of application. Anyway I have two theories for the degradation. First is just that PrProCS4 was getting its knickers in a twist and thereby just doing more computation per minute of video to be rendered as time went by, maybe internal resource management related to OO-type programming maybe, or related to disk IO falling behind, both these theories have problems, for the latter the CPU usage should then have dropped also.
Anyways, you need really a Quadcore system and blazing fast disk to work fully with AVCHD commercially, we found an external SATAII disk so if I were you I would just go get one and move on with your life.
Message du 03/06/09 16:08
De : "Jim Simon"
A : "JONES Peter"
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Objet : Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder running slow
For AVCHD you MUST have FAST disks.
AVCHD actually has a lower data date than DV. You need lots of CPU muscle, but disk speed is really not a factor specific to AVCHD. Anything that works for DV will work just as well for AVCHD (and HDV as well).
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