Photoshop CC Extremely Slow Startup

[SCAgency]

Photoshop CC 2014.2.2 is taking maybe 1 to 2 minutes after opening the application before I can open a file or create a new one. The menus just freeze and you can't interact. The mouse pointer is very slow and jerky across the screen. If I flip to another application it operates just fine so I don't think it's a memory issue.

I don't think I have made any changes to make this happen, just started out of the blue. Obnoxious.

Windows 8.1, 64bit.

[david.katzner]

Darn, didn’t work at all. ☹

[ella.familieharmsen]

If all fails and Adobe ignores this thread: this worked like a charm for me.

- In Windows open a command prompt (cmd) with admin credentials

- Enter the following commands:

TaskKill /T /F /IM AcroTray
TaskKill /T /F /IM Adobe*
TaskKill /T /F /IM CCL*
TaskKill /T /F /IM CCX*
TaskKill /T /F /IM Core*
TaskKill /T /F /IM Creative*

After that, start Photoshop. Starts in seconds. No reboot required 🙂

[vdriver6661]

I had the same problem, where Photoshop would take ages to start up or to open a file on a brand new top spec PC (Ryzen 5900X, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD). It was driving me crazy. But today I finally managed to fix it by going into NVIDIA Control Panel -> Display -> Set up G-SYNC and switching from "Enable for windowed and full screen mode" to just "Enable for windowed mode" (because I obviously still want to use G-SYNC for my full screen games). Now Photoshop works like a charm. I hope this helps someone.

[vdriver6661]

"Enable for windowed mode" 

By @vdriver6661

Ouch, I meant "Enable for fullscreen mode". Why is there no edit button? 

[Earth Oliver]

another important note about GSync. If you noticed mouse stuttering when you use Ps and other Adobe app, GSync is what's causing it. Disable GSync entirely and the stuttering goes away.

[mjbelt]

Optimize Photoshop performance
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html#Broadstepstoboostperform...

[DAVIDE PEPE]

Same problem here! No plugins installed. I guess it's a creative cloud problem that every time try to synchronize what you have in the cloud. If that's really the issue, please adobe allow your users to get rid of it or to disable creative cloud interaction with the entire cc suite.

[mastix]

Photoshop 23.2.0 It has been weeks of horrible performance. The moment I disabled Present Synching and closed the libraries tab everything was fast again.

Stay away fron synching if you photoshop starts slow with the neverending circling wheel.

[ultimate350]

6 years later, still super slow. I hope Photoshop is replaced by Figma.