Photoshop CS4 too slow to open files

Hello all,
I have a problem, when I open a file on Photoshop CS4, the program open this slowly. I tried with image of various dimensions also 20kb and located on desktop, but photoshop it's always too slow.
Can you help me???
Thanks

One thing that can affect the document opening time is the establishment of the GPU-based display management.
As a test, go into the Edit - Preferences - Performance dialog and uncheck the [ ] Enable OpenGL setting, then close Photoshop completely. Now restart Photoshop and try opening documents. Do you see a substantial change in opening speed?
Of course, disabling OpenGL is not a viable long-term workaround, as you lose some features. But if it DOES result in a radically different timing, you could try re-enabling it and going into the Advanced menu and trying the different settings there - for example unchecking every option. Make sure you close and restart Photoshop after ANY configuraiton change so that you're sure you're testing the new settings.
Good luck.
-Noel

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@litcast
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