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maiziechan
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April 18, 2026
Question

Indesign too slow to launch

  • April 18, 2026
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For the past few months I’ve been experiencing slow Indesign performance when editing documents but it has been tolerable until the past few days when Indesign started to be too slow to even launch. Closing the app is also extremely laggy, usually it does not fully close until I restart the computer.

Indesign can launch but takes more than 20 minutes to get to the home page, and I haven’t been able to load it to the point of being able to open any files.

I have already tried a clean removal + reinstallation of the app with the creative cloud cleaner tool, and also deleted all preferences. Most files are saved on adobe cloud.

I am on Id version 21.3, Windows 11 Pro, OS 26200.8117

Any help would be appreciated :) thank you

 

 

UPDATE: Running version 21.2 works fine it’s 21.3 that’s not working.

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    Mike Witherell
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 18, 2026

    Hi Maizie,

    It sounds like you have tried many things, so I don’t know. But you could try some suggestions from this edited compendium of InDesign troubleshooting advice.

    Mike Witherell