re: Temp lock up when opening file with pictures.
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Sysadmin_Ed
(112 messages posted)
Slow machine, small amount of RAM.
Does this happen with ANY picture you try to open, or just the 85mb one?
With PS closed, go into task manager, performance tab, and take a look at your physical
memory available number, and look at the CPU usage numbers. Then open the big picture
while watching the numbers in task manager again.
If CPU usage goes way up, like 80% or higher, and/or the available physical memory
drops to very low numbers, then you're hitting resource constraints. If the available
memory goes very low, you're hitting your swap file hard and this will slow you down
considerably.
Hope this helps as a first stab at the problem.
On Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:07 am, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>When I try to do almost anything with a picture, my system grinds to a halt. It
may
>take about 1 to 2 minutes for things to come back to normal. This dose not happen
>all the time, but is any annoyance. It happens when saving or opening a file. I
do
>have Photoshop, so I do not know it this has anything to do with it or not. The
problem
>started a few months after I started PS was installed. I have a Dell Inspiron b120
>with 1.40 GHz and 1GB of ram. I do not have a lot of images in the MY Picture file,
>but am wondering if the size of the picture file ( it says 85 MB ) has anything
>to do with it. Thanks
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