Hi, I've looked around and cannot seem to find a specific solution to my problem.
I hope someone can help!
I have a 50MB .psd file (photoshop CS2) that has 6 layers (basic line drawing, text layer, filled blocks...) and everytime I open it it takes 5-10 minutes to open! Then after the widow containing the file eventually opens, it takes another minute or 2 to be able to edit the file, and sometimes freezes me out. Drawing blocks of the file very slowly... and when navigating around the file, it often take another minute or two to re-draw.
I've looked at the network printer solution, and it's not relevant because I don't print via network and I only have one working printer attached via USB.
I'm thinking it might be a page file thing, so here are some specs:
I'm running XP-Pro SP3 (streamlined - it never crashes and works fine on most other programs), a P4 2.8GB, and only 1GB of memory. I used to have 2GB, but one has gone somewhere... I know another GB of memory wouldn't go a miss, but can't even afford that at the mo.
My drives are still the old IDE ATA's, main one is 80GB and the other is 120GB, but looking in Disk management in storage in Computer management software supplied with XP, it seems the letters are not in order..
The 120GB is split into 3: C:30GB, E:44GB, F:42GB
The 80GB is also split into 3: D:15GB, G:30GB, H: 33GB
Now, they are all on NTFS, and the 50MB file I access is on F where my pagefile is also located, the pagefile is approx 1.5x my memory.....there are also most of my other documents on that partition that take a while to open - like a 5MB pdf that takes 2-3mins to open. And my music on E disk often take 20-30 seconds to open in my music player (winamp)
XP was installed just a couple of months ago, on C drive, but the rest haven't been formatted in over a year. The disks are defragged every month or so...
And it's beginning to really waste alot of time! Maybe I've complicated things somewhere along the line as it never used to be like this!
Any help would be fantastic.
I hope someone can help!
I have a 50MB .psd file (photoshop CS2) that has 6 layers (basic line drawing, text layer, filled blocks...) and everytime I open it it takes 5-10 minutes to open! Then after the widow containing the file eventually opens, it takes another minute or 2 to be able to edit the file, and sometimes freezes me out. Drawing blocks of the file very slowly... and when navigating around the file, it often take another minute or two to re-draw.
I've looked at the network printer solution, and it's not relevant because I don't print via network and I only have one working printer attached via USB.
I'm thinking it might be a page file thing, so here are some specs:
I'm running XP-Pro SP3 (streamlined - it never crashes and works fine on most other programs), a P4 2.8GB, and only 1GB of memory. I used to have 2GB, but one has gone somewhere... I know another GB of memory wouldn't go a miss, but can't even afford that at the mo.
My drives are still the old IDE ATA's, main one is 80GB and the other is 120GB, but looking in Disk management in storage in Computer management software supplied with XP, it seems the letters are not in order..
The 120GB is split into 3: C:30GB, E:44GB, F:42GB
The 80GB is also split into 3: D:15GB, G:30GB, H: 33GB
Now, they are all on NTFS, and the 50MB file I access is on F where my pagefile is also located, the pagefile is approx 1.5x my memory.....there are also most of my other documents on that partition that take a while to open - like a 5MB pdf that takes 2-3mins to open. And my music on E disk often take 20-30 seconds to open in my music player (winamp)
XP was installed just a couple of months ago, on C drive, but the rest haven't been formatted in over a year. The disks are defragged every month or so...
And it's beginning to really waste alot of time! Maybe I've complicated things somewhere along the line as it never used to be like this!
Any help would be fantastic.