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Anonymous

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CS5 Locking Up System

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February 24, 2012
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I have a 32 bit PC that I recently upgraded. I put in the most amount of RAM memory I could and upgraded the system from XP to Windows 7 Ultimate.

Yesterday I upgraded from Photoshop CS2 to CS5 and have suddenly been having problems with the system locking up on me in the middle of a project.

I saw some suggestions that were made back in 2010 and I was wondering if some new solutions have been discovered for this problem since then

If so, please provide me a link to a topic thread dealing with this issue.

Also, when first using the program I could not figure out how to get the HISTORY window to open. That is a function

I ALWAYS USE!!

It should ALWAYS open automatically

I now have it working properly, but when opening the program for the first time the HISTORY window should ALWAYS BE THERE and ready to use

Thanks

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Noel Carboni

Legend

Everyone has their limits. I've been going through mental gymnastics to figure out what it would take to put together a modern dual hex-core workstation, and the level of complexity and uncertainty briefly reached my limits when I recently learned that the motherboards one finds in Dell Precision T5500 systems are not all created equal.

The point is that some things follow rules and some are just arbitrary, and everything has to be right for it to work, and exactly right for it to work well. The realm of computing defies being oversimplified, even though operating system manufacturers are striving to make the user experience simpler.

-Noel

Hudechrome

Known Participant

That's also true of the Asus boards in the HP Slimline series. When I checked the board number, according to Asus, there is no on board video. But in fact, there is, probably for some versions.

I'm doing some investigations on two measurement devices, Spectrum Analyzers and Arbitrary Waveform Generators.

Either system makes a computer seem like a walk in the park.

Yikes!

-Lawrence

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

For a BSOD, if that is what you encountered, then this ARTICLE might be useful to you. Note: it was written with Adobe Premiere Pro in mind, but 99% applies to a system running PS, or almost any other apps.

Good luck,

Hunt

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Also, when first using the program I could not figure out how to get the HISTORY window to open.

It’s called a Panel.

Just try Window > History

If you get Photoshop up and running you may want save your Workspace to be able to easily reset it in case you moved Panels around.

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Anonymous

If I knew how to "save my workspace" I would most certainly have done it. I guess I seem wiser than I am?

I just checked and CS5 is opening properly with the history panel showing. However, Adobe should make certain the history panel ALWAYS SHOWS when the program is opened for the first time. It is not a luxury to me. That history panel is ESSENTIAL every single time I use Photoshop. It always opened, by default, in CS2 and earlier versions I have of the program. I don't see why the 'Adobe Experts' suddenly felt it was no longer needed to open by default. What were they thinking? That people no long need the option to undo their mistakes???

The Windows 7 upgrade comes with two disks. One for 32 bit systems and one for 64 bit systems. I have upgraded my 32 bit system to have the most amount of RAM it is able to use.

I just know I have never had such locking up problems with CS2 and earlier versions of Photoshop

Yes, I'm overdue for a reformat. I've been having other quirky problems as well. About twice a week I am cleaning out the files and checking for system errors and automatically correcting them. I just did that again before coming here today; after I defragged the 3% fragmentation of the C drive.

I'm hoping I can download the special recovery disk information to burn onto a disk as I once again test Norton Ghost 15. I didn't know I would need that disk the last time I re-formatted. It really pissed me off because I had to start all over and re-format again!!!!

Some people can get Norton Ghost 15 to work perfectly and some cannot. If I can get it to work I will never have to reformat 'from the ground up' again, CORRECT?

All my programs should be brought back to their original state when the computer was freshly re-formatted, RIGHT?

I'm asking, not telling. I really want Norton Ghost 15 to work for me, but it seems it is about a 50/50 gamble. Half the people at amazon love it and half hate it. Because of this I REFUSE to buy the program before I know for a fact it will work for me. I will try to once again use the trial version from the Symantic website.

Thanks for your help

You must realize that I cannot copy and paste my messages from a wordprocessing program, like OpenOffice, into this window or copy from this edit panel into my word processing program. That is not cool. I always like to create my posts in a word processor first just in case my computer or browser crashes in mid-posting.

SPECIAL EDIT:

I was able to copy and past this post AFTER it was properly posted; although it looks kind of weird in my word processing program.

The problem that led me to create posts like this in a word processor BEFORE I post them had to do with browser crashing problems. So copying the posts after the fact is rather redundant; although still useful as a record of what I have written.

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Anonymous

The workspace management capability in Photoshop is actually quite good. Once you learn how the various features of it work, setting up your own (named) workspace is quite logical, and will help you get the most out of Photoshop for your own needs. Even returning your system to your preferred workspace setup after temporarily changing it is a breeze.

One thing that I find TREMENDOUSLY alleviates workspace woes is to run multiple monitors. In my preferred workspace, almost the entire left monitor contains the Photoshop main window, and is where image editing occurs, while the right monitor houses many of the panels (but not all of them). It's very handy to have, at a glance, things like the INFO, HISTOGRAM, and NAVIGATOR panels visible.

If you find yourself struggling with managing your screen space, and not being able to see all that you need to see at once, do consider running two or more monitors. Modern computers are quite up to the task, and you might never want to use a system with just one monitor ever again!

-Noel

ALSO: I use a Wacom tablet to work with Photoshop. Sometimes I like to use the left-click button of the mouse to paint with. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Please tell me why this is and how to get the left-click button of the mouse to work with cloning and painting in Photoshop CS5 all the time. Thanks

Chris Cox

Legend

Is the whole system locking up?

If so, you need to look for problems with low level drivers, bad hardware, or an OS bug.

Usually it's bad hardware, like RAM, or sometimes the video card or disk system.

Photoshop tends to stress systems more than other applications, and will expose bad hardware pretty quickly.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Sohow much RAM do have now? Photoshop became hungry for RAM with CS4, and you need at least 4Gb, and 8Gb is better. Does Win 7 Ultimate only come in 64 bit?

History is there under the Window menu.

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