Slow Saving - Photoshop CS3

I am running WinXP on a PC with 2 @ 3.2GHz processors & 4 GB of RAM. The default printer is local, not networked. But the save speed is not fast! The Photoshop Performance details are:
Memory Usage
Available Ram: 1709 MB
Ideal Range: 940-1231
Let Photoshop use: 1675 MB ((98%)
Scratch Disks
V:\ 14.39 nGB
History states: 20
Cache Levels: 5
An help would be apppreciated.
Chuck

no. there's a switch that needs to go in the boot.ini file (as described in the link i posted) that allows windows to use more than 2 gig of ram. generally a 32bit operating system can use around 3 to 3.5 out of 4 gig. 32-bit apps can generally only use 2 gig. the switch allows the os to see a bit more (although still not the full 4 gig).
without it, you have a situation in your described setup above where even though you have 4 gig installed, the os only sees 2 gig. you're setting 98% of that to photoshop so the rest of the os and applications are starving for ram. that causes the os to "swap" programs and data in and out of memory, which is why ps is slow.
what i would do is start with bob's suggestion. cut back to 55% (which is the default value). then read the link i posted and setup the "/3gb" boot.ini switch. THEN you can go back to photoshop and start tweaking the memory allocation percentage back up a little at a time until you find a sweet spot for performance. i'd go up in 5 or 10% increments.

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