Re: HELP@from anyone who can.

I'm going to jump right on your suggestions and get on Adobe's sight
immediately since in addition to taking 30 minutes to load, once I'm
on, it feels like I'm working at the speed of my first 8088 computer
about 20 years ago. Usually it starts loading for about ten minutes
than I'l get a message that it cannot finish because some file is
missing (since my reinstall there have been several, not the same one
each time, the latest was OXX...?.dll (the..?? are mine) I'll hit ok
and it continues to struggle to load. for another 15-20 minutes.

I hate to keep bugging you, but how do I know if I have a bad
font--anyway to isolate it? I know I have way too many on my machine
and started to get rid to them but haven't completed that task...found
that it wouldn't let me delete some, even though they didn't come with
Windows.

To answer you question about Photo pos pro, I surely don't need it and
only downloaded it to get the _ISource22.dll file from it. It just
seems to be a basic photo retouch program, but quite frankly I haven't
explored it.

And here is a REAL brain teaser for you....which I though by uninstall
would solve. My tool pointers (just in Photoshop have all turned into
"doubles"--two tiny crop tools side by side, two tiny paintbuckets,
eyedroppers....everything. While it seems like a minor annoyance you
cannot believe how often I've dragged a layer to make a duplicate and
it winds up in the trash, or the wrong color is selected. I have put
that one on the Adobe forum but now one knows what the heck I'm talking
about....they probably think I have double vision. When I did my
reinstall I reset my preferences so I thought that might solve it, but
if you have any ideas it would be great!
Hunt wrote:
In article <1155397133.102123.27540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nancycordaro@xxxxxxxxx says...

Thank you Hunt,
After spending two whole days, on this....
I ultimately did a complete uninstall of Creative Suite and reinstalled
it. It "kind of" solved it. By that I mean that now when I open
Photoshop it gets hung up on some missing files, however its no longer
the same _ISource22.dll one, (more later on that). I'll hit "OK" and it
continues to load. The total time it takes to load Photoshop is about
5-6 minutes, sometimes more, but at least I'm able to work.

I did a lot more digging around about that elusive _ISource22.dll
file....I hadn't loaded Altasoft...didn't know anything about it,
however, I did learn that particular file is also part of Photo Pos
Pro, a shareware program I had on my computer for a very short time...I
downloaded it again, just to get that file in case I had trouble again)

So here I've got this brand new computer with all the bells and
whistles and its slow as molasses.
I do thank you very much for your help in getting me up and running
again....at least for the time being; I have no idea how long this will
last, but at least I think I can finish my work this weekend....thanks
again.
Nancy
Hunt wrote:
[SNIP]
I've not heard of Photo Pos Pro. Any idea of how it interfaces with CS2? Is it
a plug-in, or a totally standalone program?

As for the load time for CS2, what are the points, where things seem to hang -
that tiny line of items being loaded/initialized? Also, have you checked your
fonts? A bad font, can really hang PS. You should see a long pause when
loading the fonts in PS.

Next question: OK, it loads, albeit very slowly. How does it perform, once
loaded? If that too is slow, you might want to check out Adobe's site, as
there are several links on PS running slowly. There are step-by-step guides to
settings that can speed the program up, mostly Allocated RAM, Cache, Undo
States, Scratch Disks, etc. These usually help get the program up to max.
performance.

Most of all - glad you can finish your project. Problems usually surface, when
you have a deadline. Keep us posted on what you find out, once the work is
done, and you have time to poke around a bit. Though you are rat in the maze,
right now, your efforts might help many other folk in time to come.

Hunt

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