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When making a selection with the standard lasso tool, the screen will jump and then the path traced by the lasso does not display from that point on. A "Program not Responding" message displays in the upper left corner of the display. When the mouse button is released, a slection has been made. This behaviour is consistant. It does not happen on earlier versions of PSE (8&7) loaded on this machine. Gateway SX 2800, Intel Quad Core Q8300, Windows 7 Home Premium, 6 meg RAM.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix?
Thanks,
Steve

I received a reply from Adobe in which they informed me it was a "Known issue". It wasn't a "Known issue in previous versions. So why is it now a problem?
I find this very frustrating. Adobe is so concerned with their revenue cycle that they take a well functioning application and break it by messing with the code so they can release a "New" version every year. They offer one or two questionably useful features and expect us all to come running with cash in hand for their next great thing.
I have a suggestion for Adobe for version 10; well maybe version 11 because I suspect 10 is sitting on the shelf just waiting for the rollout date. Anyway here are the changes I think they should make. Change nothing. Just keep it the way it is but release it with all of the sloppy code fixed. Deliver to us a properly functioning, bug-free application.
 

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