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I got back to work on Monday, and after a Adobe update (did not include any PS CS3 updates), and a Windows Update - Photoshop is unuseably slow, there's flickering, toolbars takes 20-30 seconds to reappear, where before it was fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advise?

Does you PC have rollback points set?

I had to look that up, so no.

If its a work PC there is a chance you will have.

Go to: Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> System Restore

Either you will be told by pop-up that is has been disbled or you will be shown a calandar with restore points. If you get the calandar you can choose where to rollback to.

Another thing you can do, Check your other apps, make sure they run smoothly. If other apps are affected then chances are it was the windows update and not the Adobe update. If you can get the REF of the update you did, you can check on MS website for known bugs / fixes.

If other apps are ok you could try re-installing PS I suppose, but if you have a lot of custom addons its probably more hassle than its worth.

Thanks a lot. I'll try that.

sorry Napalm, I don't have much else

I think Adobe folks would have us dump/reset preferences
and I am stoopid, so I would probably dump all my temp files too


since you mention flickering and display of the app tools etc, I would first think system... but from experience working with Bridge troubleshooting display problems, I know that enabling the Use Software Rendering [checkbox in Bridge prefs] is a fix there... similarly, there's a checkbox in photoshop preferences under the Performance Tab for "Enable 3D Acceleration" which says the chheckbox is "to enhance performance of graphics display and rendering, enable GPU support for 3D acceleration"

but then, this is display performance... which is a bit different from sluggishness of the application...


all else fails, reinstall Photoshop... but I would think that it is something other than Photoshop

I was having that problem when I first installed CS3 on my slowest system, I disabled bridge & it worked fine.
Bridge is a resource guzzler.

Originally posted by: arigato
Bridge is a resource guzzler.

BOO!!!!

I was hoping to use bridge to organize/tag my images. I have cs3 on order. Should I skip trying out bridge and just go for lightroom?

I've uninstalled same old apps to free up a bit of space even though there's nearly 100 gigs open on the harddrives. This morning everything is running perfectly. I swear, it's voodoo.

Originally posted by: Tha.Riddla

Originally posted by: arigato
Bridge is a resource guzzler.

BOO!!!!

I was hoping to use bridge to organize/tag my images. I have cs3 on order. Should I skip trying out bridge and just go for lightroom?

Depends on how well your system runs. If you've got craplaods of free system resources it should work fine - I can run bridge on my better system no problme. I'm just not a particular fan of it, although I recognize its usefulness to those that like that sort of app.

I've been using ACDSee Classic for years, and that served me well.

How does one disable Bridge? I did not want it to begin with, but the installer did not ask me

I just uninstalled it.
However...
If you open Bridge you can go to preferences and you will see a series of checkboxes:


uncheck Bridge.