PSE8 slow in focusing

Under Win7/64 my PSE8 is VERY slow to focus, especially certain images.  Some focus immediately, others take over 2 minutes, then if you go forward and backward, they are out of focus again.  Just R-clicking focuses fuzzy immediately.  Auto Analyzer on or off makes no difference, but basically my PSE8 cannot be used to display full screem images.  The program screen in the Control Panel has no "repair" option.   What to do??
If I go to PSE9 or PSE10 - would my catalog and keywords be compatible?  Or is there an incompatibility issue?
I hope somebody can help.  My catalog in PSE8 is very important to me and contains 20,000 images.

Edwin M wrote:
Under Win7/64 my PSE8 is VERY slow to focus, especially certain images.  Some focus immediately, others take over 2 minutes, then if you go forward and backward, they are out of focus again.  Just R-clicking focuses fuzzy immediately.  Auto Analyzer on or off makes no difference, but basically my PSE8 cannot be used to display full screem images.  The program screen in the Control Panel has no "repair" option.   What to do??
If I go to PSE9 or PSE10 - would my catalog and keywords be compatible?  Or is there an incompatibility issue?
I hope somebody can help.  My catalog in PSE8 is very important to me and contains 20,000 images.
I am not sure about your first question. I suspect PSE10 would be better suited to Win7/64. Two factors may explain part of the problem : the default size of the thumbnails stored in the database and the jpeg saving mode (progressive or standard...). The size of the picture plays also its part.
For your second question, it's easy to convert catalogs and keep all tags etc.

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