Fireworks CS3 app is slow

I have now had to re-install Fireworks MX as this is the only
Fireworks application that responds with any speed.
I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks CS3
all 3 of which are painfully slow when swapping between
applications. I have to wait around 10 seconds for it to respond
before I can continue working.
I've trawled the web for a solution to no avail.
I'm running:
Dell Dimension 8400
Windows XP SP3
3.25GB of RAM
Radeon X800 SE video card
Any other app in the CS3 range is fine, I've tried disabling
anti-virus, removing services, changing compatibility modes and
numerous other things to no avail.
Any help much appreciated.

cmakin wrote:
> I have now had to re-install Fireworks MX as this is the
only Fireworks
> application that responds with any speed.
>
> I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks
CS3 all 3 of which are
> painfully slow when swapping between applications. I
have to wait around 10
> seconds for it to respond before I can continue working.
>
> I've trawled the web for a solution to no avail.
> I'm running:
> Dell Dimension 8400
> Windows XP SP3
> 3.25GB of RAM
> Radeon X800 SE video card
>
> Any other app in the CS3 range is fine, I've tried
disabling anti-virus,
> removing services, changing compatibility modes and
numerous other things to no
> avail.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
I'm on XP SP2 and don't find the app particularly slow. What
size files
are you working with?
You might want to give the new Fireworks Public Beta a try.
One focus
for the beta was to improve overall performance.
You can find the beta at labs.adobe.com
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    to me like there is no problem with fireworks but with some code
    which is checking if the copy is legal and this is causing the
    delay. I used FW very occasionally just to create some web
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    run it on windows vista. i really dont want to buy upgrade again to
    use it on windows 7 just once a month. Any help appreciated.
    update
    Now it stopped working and I have got this message
    Licensing for this product has stopped working.
    You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the
    problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or
    contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for
    help.

    On Windows 7? That's a beta product. If you want to use
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    is to
    find problems. CS3 works well on Vista. If you need to work
    productively, use a released product, not a beta.
    That said, I had the same error on Vista a couple of weeks
    ago. Something hung in Fireworks and not only would Fireworks not
    start, none of my other CS3 apps (on Vista) would start. I got the
    same error message in each. It is something in the licensing
    product that Adobe uses. I searched Google for the text of the
    error message and found a KB article that eventually got things
    working.
    http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401528
    I had to run the utility all three times, and then keep on
    going through the other steps of moving off file folders before my
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    working, like that, and I kept being disappointed at having to move
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