how long does it take photoshop to open
 

mine takes 16 seconds give or take.

I really need a new computer

this all depends on the first time you open it or the second time per boot.

edit: I just open in the hopes I can remember what I learned in high school:)

add some memory

I have a P4 1.8GHZ with over a Gig of RAM. I also have a lot of plugins. Photoshop 7 takes 8 seconds to open for me.

Photoshop v7 takes MAX 4-5 sec. on my Dual AMD MP2200
But version 6 takes like 20 seconds on my firewall pc (amd 700)

photoshop6 takes approx 4 second on my amd XP 2200+ 2.0 ghz

On my 486DX 33, it doesn't.

Seriously, P7 is a major resource hog.

A bit over 7 hours.

3 seconds or so. 15 seconds on old computer. It would sit on "loading fonts" for 10 seconds of it.

hmm............ P4 256 mb RAM ....... and it takes 15 seconds to boot up Photoshop 6.

maybe i don't have enough memory........sounds like it should be faster.

i don't care really.......it seems blazing fast to me, a year ago i was using a Pentium 233 with 64 mb RAM and it took probably 2 minutes.

ya know, i'm not much of a techie, what's a good piece of software to see if my computer is working as well as it should and if it sucks will give me some possible reasons why?

i've had a sneaking suspicion ever since i got this computer that it's not performing up to what it should.

I can't encode video using Windows Media Encoder, crashes the machine if i try to encode at anything but the crappiest quality, little movies made for 56k dialup. I couldn't get anyboy to
tell me why, the machine far exceeds Microsoft's requirements, i know lots of people with a P4 256MB machine who have no trouble encoding WMV movies. But what the fuck? How am i supposed to figure out why it won't work? I went to Microsoft newsgroups, all the good video sites like DVDHelp.com, nobody could help me.

I don't even know who to call in the phonebook for that kind of thing cuz it's about a specific piece of software. I will NOT call Microsoft's support and pay those morons..........been there done that seen that horror show before.

well any help or suggestions are appreciated.

6 seconds

I have tons of fonts though.

My system has been so fucked lately it takes about 2 minutes for a program like PS to load. Also takes about 10 - 20 minutes to boot up :(

About 20-30 seconds on this shitheap. About 6 or 7 seconds on the faster computer.

I've got a duron 850mhz with 128mb ram and v6 takes about 15 seconds, but I'm able to have image ready open at the same time so I'm happy. :)

256M should be fine, but I tend to be a RAM junkie and run at least a gig in my machines. Does your pc crash at any other time or is it just when you run encoder. If it only crashes during encoder most likely it is a software related issue, however if you get random lockups during other program you may wanna look into hardware. With windows it can be pretty difficult to narrow down software issues , but my best suggestion would be to first go to control panel --> add/remove programs and uninstall any unneccessary programs. Also do an uninstall of encoder and any other prgrams that may have been installed with it. Open IE, go to Tools--> windows update and be sure to download any patches that may be available. May wanna upgrade to the latest version of Windows Media Player as well (even though I think 9 is a POS) as that could also be causing the issue. Also go to the windows media site (microsoft.com/mediaplayer or something ?) and download and install any codec packs they have available. If that doesnt solve it ..... umm get really upset at Bill Gates and consider a reinstall of your OS if its that important.

Rory
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"add some memory"

... I second that, you don´t really need a new computer, stick in as much as your motherboard supports ... 2GB of RAM and you can run your puter on a 486 ... trust me !

11 seconds on AMD 1800+ :thumbsup

I found it loads faster on my U2W Cheetah than on a UDMA133 drive. Same other system specs.

thanks Rory. The only software I've run that crashes is Windows Media Encoder trying to convert an avi or mpeg into a 256kbps WMV file.