Photshop slowness

[pattere]

We have recently installed the Adobe Creative Suite version CS2 on to some machines, and are receiving complaints of slowness (at least within Photoshop).

Example: When doing something as simple as switching tools, it may take up to a minute before the newly selected tool is useable.

Before installing the application suite, I made sure to un-install any previous versions of the same stand alone applications and re-boot the PCs.

The machine I am working on presently:
IBM ThinkCentre A50
Windows XP Pro SP2
Intel 3.0GHz processor, supporting hyperthreading
1GB total RAM
2.4GB paging file

Any help would be welcome. Thanks.

 

[barehug]

Update your graphics card, if that doesn't help try turning off it's hardware acceleration.

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[Zed5010]

Try downloading the latest patches for both Photoshop and Bridge. Also, you may want to allocate scratch disk file to a secondary drive.

Zed

 

[mscallisto]

try this Adobe post that mentions disabling hyperthreadind among other things.

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331412.html