Stuck in hand tool in CS6

why do I get stuck in the hand tool in CS6?????????????

Beside RAM, which is very important (I run with 16 GB and allow 10,841 MB = 70% to Photoshop), the scratch file plays an important role in performance.
However, I doubt either of those factors plays a role in your issue. It's been a while since I briefly experienced that myself, but it was fixable as I described above, and I vaguely remember linking it to a software conflict, maybe with Safari running in the background—not sure.
Coincidentally, I happen not to use LR because I tried it and detested it. I'm also not a Windows user. But I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit in your case turns out to be LR running in the background.
Others have reported un-updated NIK plug-ins, which I don't use.
As I rule, I feel more comfortable with allowing Photoshop at least 7 or 8 GB of memory.
Since I already mentioned the scratch file, here are my thoughts on it:
The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

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Apologies for the triple post but this is still frustrating me.
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