When I go to do a drop shadow, photoshop cc takes 17 seconds to pull up the window

I just got Photoshop CC a few weeks ago.  It seems to be very slow, and I'm using a super fast computer with 32Gig of RAM, i7 Processor, SSD, etc...
Photoshop in particular, is REALLY slow.  For instance, when I go to Layer, Layer Style, Drop Shadow, it takes about 17 seconds before the window will pop up for me to make adjustments on a drop shadow.  If I click cancel on that, it takes about 2-3 seconds for the window to go away.
Lots of other slow things in photoshop too.  Scratch disks are on a SSD.  Performance is set to give Photoshop 80% of my RAM.
Anyone have any clues or ideas to help?

I have this same problem. It doesn't take quite as long, about 6 seconds to open the Layer Styles dialog, but still, way too long for such a powerful computer (I have pretty much the same specs as your). My Surface Pro 3 i5 runs Photoshop faster than my i7-5820k with a GTX970.
Did you ever get the issue resolved?

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