Adobe CS3 Responding Slowly Opening New Window, Opening Image of any Type or Size
Problem/Symptom:
Adobe’s new CS3 (Photoshop and Illustrator mostly) experiences slow performance and lagging when opening or creating files regardless of size or type.
Solution:
Check your printers. If you have an offline or unconnected printer, this is most likely your issue. Remove any offline or old/duplicate references to networked printers. If the printer is timing out, you will experience lag in CS3.
My Personal Experience: After installing the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Trial and using it for a little bit, I noticed it bogging very badly whenever I would create a new image or open an existing file of any type or size. After searching around for a while, I caught wind of it being printer related, more specifically the printspooler service in windows. I had recently moved and not hooked up one of my networked printers. After removing the offline printers (and printer that was trying to connect but would time-out) Photoshop opened files and created new ones with a snap!! I’m very glad to have resolved this issue, it was getting very annoying having Photoshop lag on a Dual Core system running 4gb of DDR2 on a Rapter! Anyways, glad to have it cleared up! For anyone out there having this same issue, remove any offline printers or ones that cannot connect!
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thanks man! i was having this exact same issue!!! finally resolved!!!!
damn man…
I’d all but given up on finding a fix for this problem and then you came along…
worked like a charm…now CS3 runs like lightening.
many yhanks for sharing this info.
Mike.
This didn’t work for me… Running Vista. CS2 works great, but CS3 is slow. Bogs down the whole system. Takes 8 seconds just to open a small jpg. But the all other apps slow down too. Are there any other solutions? (quad core, 2.3ghz, 2gb ram, 712mb graphics card)
This didn’t exactly work for me, I do have a network printer but was online, however when I changed my default printer to a local printer then it fixed this slowness problem for me. Too Cool! Thanks for the info.
When I grow up I wanna be just like you!! This solution has regained my sanity… Love your work. Peace
Would’ve never guessed. Thanks a ton, my files are hauling and so am I!
I removed my network printer’s one by one and guess what? It totally worked. I am out of stone age. Thanx a lot.
I thought you were crazy! I deleted some old printers no go. Then I started removing the rest of the printers one by one. It worked! I added them back in and it was still fine. Snap and the picture is open. Lifesaver!
I am experiencing the same problem, tho it isn’t just opening PS CS3 its using it too. I don’t have any printers installed except the vista(32bit) defaults.
Im on a laptop HP Pavilion dv6000 w/ 2gigram dual core AMD, Nvidia geforce, PS cs2 ran with no problem. I have Adobe master collection and the rest of the programs run fine its just m,y PScs3 that is slow. Any help?
This solution worked like a charm! I thought it was just me with this problem too, thank you so much for sharing! Really grateful
setting my default printer to a local one solved the problem for me, images open instantly now
I just set it to the “send to one note” thing that was installed with vista.
I shouted with excitment haha everyone at work now thinks im insane!
Since the slowness is caused by a DEFAULT printer, which can ALSO be a network printer causing it to run slow, it’s not really a solution to delete a network printer.
The best solution is to set a LOCAL printer as your default printer. In my case, I set the Acrobat PDF printer as the default, and things are back to normal.
cheers.