Windows slow after photoshop use

I have windows XP, 4GB RAM, 160GB drive, Photoshop CS3. My computer is generally very fast with excellent performance.
When I use Photoshop, running other programs concurrently becomes much slower, which of course I attribute to the large memory and processing needs of Photoshop. But after I'm done using Photoshop and close the program, thereafter I am often stuck with slower performance of the computer and any program I am using. Performance picks up again only if I reboot or log off/on.
I suspect that Photoshop puts memory aside or does some other systems manipulation to enhance its performance, but does NOT reverse it when the program closes. Is that true? How can I fix this problem?
Thanks
Mark

When an application closes, everything is reclaimed by the system. There is nothing to set aside, nothing hidden.
My guess is that you have a couple of memory hungry apps running, and the OS is paging quite heavily. That should resolve itself after using other apps for a few minutes.
You may get better performance from installing more RAM, or dialing down the amount of RAM you give to Photoshop.

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iCloud errors
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    cloudd 19
    comapple.InputMethodKit.UserDictionary 4
    CallHistorySyncHelper 4
    Safari 1
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    <string>Unix</string>
    <key>SockPathMode</key>
    <integer>438</integer>
    <key>SockPathName</key>
    <string>/var/run/jp.co.canon.MasterInstaller.socket</string>
    <key>SockType</key>
    <string>Stream</string>
    </dict>
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Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.startup.plist
    - mod date: Mar 1 13:56:03 2015
    - checksum: 3094394405
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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        <key>Label</key>             <string>org.virtualbox.startup</string>
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        <key>RunAtLoad</key>         <true/>
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        <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>    <true/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
            <array>
                <string>/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh</string>
                <string>restart</string>
            </array>
    </dict>
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Contents of /private/etc/ssh_config
    - mod date: Jan 20 11:13:19 2013
    - checksum: 1281775184
     Host *
       SendEnv LANG LC_*
    Host *
        XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist
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    <string>com.apple.Safari</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/SafariSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/S afariSyncClient</string>
    <string>--sync</string>
    <string>com.apple.Safari</string>
    <string>--entitynames</string>
    <string>com.apple.bookmarks.Bookmark,com.apple.bookmarks.Folder</string>
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    <false/>
    <key>ThrottleInterval</key>
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    </array>
    </dict>
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    Adobe Flash Player: 12/11/2014 7:12 pm
    Java 7 Update 71: 5/11/2014 1:23 pm
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External harddisk became extremely slow after reformat using disk utility

hello everyone~ let me try to describe as clear as possible!
to start with, i have 2 external harddisk:
hd(A)-120G, format in Mac OS Extended (journaled), it's and old harddisk and is nearly full;
hd(B)-200G, format in MS-DOS (ie. FAT32), it's a new harddisk with plenty of space.
what i wanted to do: make both hd(A) & hd(B) read & writable in mac & windows.
so, i tried to move all files in hd(A) to hd(B), hope to reformat the hd(A) to MS-DOS. but then i found out many big files can't be moved to hd(B) at all, and then i found out there's a 4G limit to the FAT32 format.
then, i tried to format hd(B) in NTFS, hoping that it can be read & writable with the help of MacFuse in both mac & windows without file size limit. so i downloaded and installed the MacFuse in my mac and format the hd(B) in a PC with Vista. well i was a bit impatient.. so i chose quick format only. then i plugged it in my mac~ yes it's readable & writable!! but the speed was like... 2mbps.......yes, 2MB per second. i really can't stand this speed! i thought it's becoz of the NTFS format... maybe it makes the transfer speed slow in mac?
so finally... i reformat the hd(B) into Mac OS Extended (journaled) using Disk Utility in OSX. i gave up the idea to make it usable in both mac & window.. i juz want the bigger harddisk to serve as a backup storage harddisk and i'll be happy with that already. so, after the format, i started moving files from hd(A) to hd(B)...and....well... the speed remained at 2MB per second.... which means, it takes like an hour to transfer juz 2G or so... i think the speed is very strange right?? maybe i messed it up making it different formats one time and another... and i dunno what to do with it now!!
anyone...please help me?? =(

Hi aniDa, and a warm welcome to the forums!
You might try reformatting it but choose the Security Option button to Zero Data once.
Did you reboot everything?
You can also make your PCS R/W HFS+ with MacDrive ...
http://www.mediafour.com/

Why is my MacMini running slow after stop using it for while

Hi,
Last night after a year or more I decided to turn-on myMacMini to let my daughter use it and to my surprise it’s running very slow evenwhen just surfing the internet and I know it wasn’t like that in fact this usedto be my primary machine until I bought a MacBook but I used to run Photoshop,Flash, Lightroom etc without any problems, it wasn’t supper fast because thisis a PowerPC MacMini 1.6Hz, 40Gig (50% free space), 1Gig and I’m running Leopard (upgraded fromTiger), but it wasn’t as slow as is right now. I was thinking to reinstallTiger thinking that this is because it’s running Leopard but as I said it wasrunning fine before (with Leopard).
Do I need to reinstall the operating system or start doing adisk repair and see if it helps?
Any Idea what could be wrong?
I know this is not a super machine but as I said this is formy daughter just for surfing the internet.
Thanks a lot!

I don't know what happened but while was trying to do a printscreen pressing shift-command+4 to show the processes I noticed that it wentdown I probably pressed the wrong buttons when trying to do the print-sreen butI don't know which keys I actually pressed, what I did see is that the processthat was taking most of the CPU resources was one called “mds” and I don’t knowwhat it is.
Process Name: User:
mds root
Any idea what could be causing the problem?
Thanks a lot

Safari extremely choppy and slow after long use

Hello people. First of all my specs:
Earlly 2011 15" Macbook pro; 2.0 Ghz i7 Processor; 8GB RAM; 500GB HDD with 140GB free;
When I switch on my mac and use safari it works fine. Always enough free RAM. After about 5 hours of use safari starts to chop when i scroll. This happens mostly when i open a link in a new tab and it is still loading. In extreme cases i right click on a link and the pop up menu takes about 3 to 5 seconds to appear. I thought RAM was a problem but about 2GB was free so that wasnt it. This is always the situation, ram always available. I have used programs like iBosstUp to cleanup files in my mac. I have emptied recylcle bin. I have reset Safari. My mac is using the latest OS lion 10.7.3. I usually open upto 20 tabs at the same time thats why I got 8 GB. I am now thinking of going up to 16GB(no debate here: it is 100% possible i reserched). But I dont want to find this problem there again after the upgrade. Another issue, when I have loads of tabs opened, the tabs load fine but when i click on any one of them, the page is completely blank and reappears about a second or two after. Sometimes the tabs load when I click on them, yet they are supposed to load in the background. If free ram was very low then I was going to assume virtual memory was in use therefore the pages taking time to appear..
Please help. Thank you in advance

Hey LpoolEd,
Thanks for the question. If I understand correctly, Safari has slow performance and there is an issue with automatic login. I would recommend that you read these articles, they may be helpful in troubleshooting your issue.
Safari 5.0.1 or later: Slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found
OS X Yosemite: Login Options pane of Users & Groups preferences
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a great day,
Mario

Flash Player about 3X slow after first use

Recently updated to the latest version of Flash Player on a Win 7 x 64 machine. At first launch everything is perfect. But once the browser is closed (any browser) flash player slows down about 3X until I do a restart. Downgraded to an older version of FP, same behavior. This just started happening - any clue what it could be??

Hello, I use XP/SP3 (home edition) and it is SP3-100427-1636 also along with IE6. I have Windows fully patched.
You didn't say if you have all Windows updates but I assume you do. In August there was a cumulative Critical update for IE6, 7 and 8, so just wanted to mention that.
Now of course I have had the same Flash Player version that you are using, but updated whenever it was available. The latest is now 10.1.85.3 which I use.
The hardware acceleration must be working as it should for my system since I have not had to turn it off.
What I would check is that the Shockwave Flash Object in the IE add ons is enabled and the same version of Flash Player that you are using(10.1.53.64)
Whether using this site to turn off the hardware acceleration would make a difference or not I don't know, but you could try it.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ Right clicking on the Flash logo seems to be easier for most users, then click on Settings and then on Display Settings, UN check the box.
Other than making sure the systems are fully patched and the SW Object is correct I don't know what would be causing the slowness. You could verify that the Flash files are correct, sometimes during an Uninstall of the older version of Flash Player an old file may have not been removed.
Thanks,
eidnolb

Window resizing after airplay use

The annoying thing, is it possible to avoid the window resizing each time i have used airplay from desktop to ATV, so i dont have to scale back and reposition every open app everytime i need to switch back?

-> Start Firefox in -> [[Safe Mode]] to check if your add-ons/extensions are causing the problems.
* Also see this article -> [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
Check and tell if its working.
For Crashing problem, see this article -> [[Firefox Crashes]]
* IF it crashes again, submit your Crash IDs here as described in section '''"Get Help Fixing this Crash"''' of the above mentioned article.

Firefox get slow after while

hello all, always my firefox get slow after being used for 2h or 1h i get this message in my event viewer
Faulting application name: plugin-container.exe, version: 36.0.1.5542, time stamp: 0x54f851c0
Faulting module name: xul.dll, version: 36.0.1.5542, time stamp: 0x54f85115
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x011afb85
Faulting process id: 0x1528
Faulting application start time: 0x01d05c55ff96f561
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\xul.dll
Report Id: 3d950c7c-c849-11e4-8099-002186899b43
looking forward,

[[What is plugin-container]] and how to troubleshoot it becoming slow: [[Firefox is slow - How to make it faster]]

After Photoshop CC 2014 update - Photoshop is very slow (Windows 7)

After updating today to the latest photoshop cc2014 Version, Photoshop starts very slow and is not useable.
I updated from V. 2014.1.0 to 2014.2.1 20141014.r.257.
Starting Photoshop Needs 6 minutes (before 1.5 minutes). The menue and button reactiontime is more than slow, you cant work with this Setup.
Is there a Problem with the new release?
And please Adobe, dont tell me, my System has a problem. Did only an update on the CC2014 Suite via creative cloud. Old PS Version (2014.1.0)runs great.
After testing a few time, I recovered my System back to Version 2014.1.0 with Windows recovery and Photoshop works good again.
So whats wrong with the new release?
My PC config:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 2014.2.1 20141014.r.257 2014/10/14:23:59:59 CL 987299 x64
Windows 7 64-Bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
Intel CPU-Familie:6, Modell:10, Stepping:5mit MMX, SSE (ganze Zahl), SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Hyper-Threading
Physischer Prozessor: 8
Logischer Prozessor: 16
Prozessor-Taktfrequenz: 2664 MHz
Memory: 20463 MB
Thanks for any tipp!
BR.
Werner

The CC 2014 update 2014.2.1 is a month old and ACR 8.7 is two days old. Something strange is happening to you. First try resetting your Photoshop Preferences. This is a Adobe Photoshop User forum your not dealing with Adobe here. You seem to think you are and your attitude seems like you not open to to possibility that your system may have a problem. I think you may have one..
Adobe CC 2014 Product Updates/Downloads for Windows
Photoshop CC 2014
File Download
Size
Date
Notes
Adobe Photoshop 2014.2.1 Update for CC 2014 (64-bit)
249 MB
10/20/2014
Release 15.2.1
Adobe Photoshop 2014.2.1 Update for CC 2014 (32-bit)
223 MB
10/20/2014
Adobe Photoshop 2014.2.0 Update for CC 2014 (64-bit)
249 MB
10/6/2014
Release 15.2
Adobe Photoshop 2014.2.0 Update for CC 2014 (32-bit)
223 MB
10/6/2014
Adobe Photoshop 2014.1.0 Update for CC 2014 (64-bit)
236 MB
8/5/2014
Release 15.1
Adobe Photoshop 2014.1.0 Update for CC 2014 (32-bit)
210 MB
8/5/2014
Adobe Camera Raw – ACR
Adobe Camera Raw 8.7 Update for CC
122 MB
11/18/2014
Release 8.7
Adobe Camera Raw 8.6 Update for CC
106 MB
7/28/2014
Release 8.6
Adobe Camera Raw 8.5 Update for CC
100 MB
6/18/2014
Release 8.5

Windows 7 extremely slow after 60-90 minutes of use

My specs: Laptop is a HP Pavilion m6 Notebook PC
AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.30 GHz Processor
6 GB RAM and 64-bit Operating System
So the problem I'm having with my Windows is like after a hour to a hour and a half of operating time my Windows slows down to a slow pace. For example on start-up if I hit Start and type "calculator" I'll have my letters typed in real-time whereas
if I do the same say 80 minutes later it would give me the loading cursor and take about 5-10 seconds for the text to show up in the search box. I've already looked to see if my CPU and/or physical memory were the culprits yet they were both acting normally
(CPU at 2%-10% and Physical at 25-30%). When Windows would start acting up the video game I would be playing at the time (League of Legends or Sid Meier's Civ 5) would become unresponsive or extremely slow. What is even more strange to me is that even though
my Windows would be extremely slow my Google Chrome would be performing absolutely normal. For the meantime the only "duct tape" I have for this problem is restarting my laptop where I would get another 60-90 minutes of respectable operating time.
I need assistance, I'm at my wit's end and I have no idea what to do after trying to search the internet for my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Trev

In order to diagnose your problem you will need to download and install the below
Install the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652
Help with installation (if needed) is here
When you have, open an elevated command prompt and type the following
WPRUI.exe (which is the windows performance recorder) and check off the boxes for the following:
First level triage (if available), CPU usage, Disk IO.
If your problem is not CPU or HD then check off the relevant box/s as well (for example networking or registry) Please configure yours as per the below snip
Click Start
Let it run for 60 secs or more and save the file (it will show you where it is being saved and what the file is called)
Zip the file and upload to us on Onedrive (or any file sharing service) and give us a link to it in your next post.
Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag

I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use

@I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use it more the 2 corrections after a get a black background message that there is not enough memory) and the system stops running and a must restart is required. How do I fix this terrible problem?
If it requires a Photoshop CS5 re-install, (I belief that it may fix the problem) and re-install the two third party plugins (NIK Viveza) and (Onone Perfect Resize) how and where do I get to the proper Adobe upload page to do that.
I have tried to fix this problem by changing the memory allocations, I have spend many hours on it and are very disgusted with it but it needs to be fixed. The current memory settings are;
Ram available = 1588 MB
Range = 873 -1143 MB
Recommended Photoshop usage range = 857 however I have tried every setting to max and in between. Nothing works. Current setting = 1588 (max)
The Photoshop I use is registered, I have product # and order # .

Contact NIK for updated/upgraded versions of their plug-ins. They have been having a lot of issues with their plug-ins.

Photoshop CS3 will not open in Windows 7 after functioning perfectly?

I have just installed Windows 7, 32-bit version within the last month. I reinstalled all my programs, including InDesign and Photoshop CS3. InDesign is working well. Photoshop CS3 worked fine until last week. Overnight Photoshop would not open! I have tried everything I can think of--deleting Preferences (it took me three days to find where it was, and the control-alt-shift doesn't work), and deleted a new program for viewing videos which was the only new program I had installed (just in case), then "repaired" the Photoshop using the original disk.
Finally was able to get into Photoshop BUT: Everything is screwy--colors are off, PS tells me I have only 1600 MB of RAM, when I know I have 2 Gigs installed, it looks really strange--everything is grayed out in a checkerboard pattern.
This is my third post on this issue--CAN ANYONE HELP ME?? I have been without my Photoshop for over a week, and desperately need to get it back. I am just now getting back on track, trying to get my website back, etal. after almost a year out of commission due to a broken back and crashed computer. Now I have my computer back and can't use PHOTOSHOP! HELP!
In addition, my computer suddenly says "We have had to revert to the basic Windows color scheme because there is one program that needs it (???), and then my desktop is all screwed up. I can't get my color management back--have to turn computer off and on again and then it's all right. This always happens after trying to enter Photoshop.
Please email me a response because this is getting very annoying, and debilitating. ([email protected])
Message was edited by: Taylorgraphics

Last week I spent 8 hours online with Sony trying to get Photoshop to work. They downloaded a new video card, and driver--nothing has seemed to work. After that I completely deleted Photoshop and re-installed it from scratch. It still does not work--colors are missing, RAM is incorrect--says I have 1678 MB RAM, when there are 2 gigs on the system. It's totally unusable. Since I am seriously thinking of upgrading to PS CS5, both InDesign and Photoshop, I am very nervous about whether that will work in Windows 7, especially after reading all the problems on this forum.
I read the other questions about CS3 and MAYBE it is a Windows Update. That is the only new thing I can think of to have caused this. Windows Restore is not feasible as I have been working on this problem for over three weeks, and can't go back that far.
My question is, is it feasible/safe to delete the LAST update where this happened? That's the only thing that hasn't been done.

Mac OS X running slow after using Win 7 on BootCamp

I have a mid-2010 27" Core i5 iMac and I've installed Windows 7 using BootCamp. Every time I use Windows, the computer is responsive, but when I restart on Snow Leopard, my CPU is very slow; meaning every time I do anything for the 1st time, wether it's opening an app or widgets, the CPU responds very slowly. After experiencing this many times, I've uninstalled Windows and now that I have only Mac, after using it for 1 time, everything is as fast is it first was when I got it. Any ideas on why my Windows slows down my Mac partition? Thanks.

This is being mentioned ever since 10.6.6 and shows up in one or two threads or comments per week.
No idea what happening, but my best guess of steps to improve seem useless (backup, format, restore etc) and seems everyone has tried changing startup disk back and forth, and zapping pram and resetting SMC are also of no use.
Does not happen when a drive is not split and are able to have OS X on its own drive and Windows 7 on a different hard drive - not everyone can, though with SSDs there are more possibilities

Installing LR on a Mac computer after having used the license on a Windows PC

Hey guys,
I just got my copy of LR yesterday after having used the trial version for a while. I'm using LR on a Windows computer, but I'm considering switching to an iMac some time from now. Will I still be able to use the same copy of LR on that computer, perhaps after uninstalling the software from my Windows pc?

And no need to uninstall. Lightroom doesn't use the Photoshop method of keeping track of your installs. You are on the honour system here, and you're allowed two installs, anyway.
Hal

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