My Adobe Apps are running sooo slow (can't run more than one at a time)

[mccoole-creative]

Really frustrating - since the latest update of CC2017; all my apps (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop in particular) are incredibly slow/"not responding"/take an age to start up/crash or hang. This has been going on for about a fortnight and the apps are almost unusable. I certainly can't run more than one at the same time; which as you can imagine, is pretty hard. 

And I got an email from Adobe Systems just now, saying subscription price is going up! 😕

I'm on a 2-year old Windows 10 laptop, 6GB RAM, Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-4500U CPU@2.40GHz.

Any help would be most welcome.

[kglad]

reset your preferences -

acrobat:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1595848?start=0&tstart=0

illustrator:  http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html

indesign:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990

photoshop:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776

[mccoole-creative]

Thanks kglad, the InDesign trick doesn't appear to have worked. Maybe it's a Windows 10 thing I don't see the replace preferences (I get: Want to make changes to the computer?) .

Worse still, I can no longer open .indd files from their saved locations; I have to go to file & open from within InDesign.

[kglad]

[moved from Creative Cloud Download & Install to InDesign]

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Its not replacing preferences, its resetting them.

Hold ctrl+alt+spacebar immediately when you launch InDesign before the startup screen appears. It will ask you to reset preferences.