XP so SLOOOOW...

[DenisG]

After upgrading to XP pro (clean install) can anyone explain why, with any
prog with access to image files, they always show as the 'Open With' icon
and then VERY slowly convert to Photoshop icons. With some image folders
this can take a couple of minutes. This really slows Photoshop badly, along
with ACDSee. In fact, everything goes to a crawl with considerable
hesitation in cursor movement and changes. This is from day 1 of XP and I
have tried all sorts of display settings and card drivers with no change
whatsoever. In my previous Windows Me, everything was instant.
This is for anything to do with access to files and includes browse and
save-as etc, even in win explorer.
TIA

Denis.

 

[Rob Schneider]

ARe you sure your graphics card is compatible with XP? Do you have
latest available drivers from the card vendor?

See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.asp, "Upgrade Center".

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Guest]

What are your system specs? Do they meet the minimum requirements for xp?

 

[DenisG]

Thanks Rob, just did that following your suggestion. There was a card update
for Nividea which I have installed, but no difference. It seems to be
something to do with file handling or association. As 'Save As' board opens
the icons for jpg's for instance are not shown as Photoshop although this is
the associated program for that type of file. It just shows that nondescript
icon for no file association which usually leads to 'Open With' dialogue. It
then proceeds to change these to PS icons, 2 or 3 at a time, very slowly.
The puter has 512mb ddr memory, 2 hard drives one of which is partitioned.
They have 38g, 27g, and 10g of memory free. XP has the 10g partition all to
itself for virtual memory, Photoshop uses D drive, XP and PS are loaded on C
drive. C is ntfs and all others as fat 32. No offer was made on installation
of XP, it formatted C drive without the supposed offer of ntfs or fat 32.
To say I am frustrated is an understatement!! as I am a photographer and
don't want to work slower.

Denis

 

[Rob Schneider]

You are describing new problems.

YOu did confirm the machine is capable/for XP with the tools on
Microsoft's web site.

Did you reinstall Photoshop after install XP? Un-install then reinstall
will refresh files and reset file assocaitions.

Version of Photoshop you have OK for XP?

Did you put XP on top of ME? (normally is best to do a fresh install by
re-formatting disk and eliminateing ME from machine, based on advice
here ... I don't have personal experience with ME thank goodness).

You can easily change the fat32 drives to NTFS. Read how to do that in
Help.

Any info in the event log to show device driver problems?

What was purpose of upgrading to XP? If it worked in ME why change?

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[DenisG]

You are describing new problems.

YOu did confirm the machine is capable/for XP with the tools on
Microsoft's web site. Yes

Did you reinstall Photoshop after install XP? Un-install then reinstall
will refresh files and reset file assocaitions. Yes

Version of Photoshop you have OK for XP? Yes

Did you put XP on top of ME? (normally is best to do a fresh install by
re-formatting disk and eliminateing ME from machine, based on advice
here ... I don't have personal experience with ME thank goodness).

No complete clean install from scratch.

You can easily change the fat32 drives to NTFS. Read how to do that in
Help.

Would I gain anything?, D and E drives are simply files, nothing more.

Any info in the event log to show device driver problems? None

What was purpose of upgrading to XP? If it worked in ME why change?

I wish I knew!!. Everyone telling me XP is the bees knees in OS's I
suppose. Wish I hadn't bothered :-((
My heart of hearts wants to go back to Me but it would be better to solve
this problem as everything else works fine.
Could it be an XP corrupt file or registry setting, and, is there a way to
repair XP without having to go through the whole installation over again??
Just to repeat......it's not just a PS problem, it's all progs that access
files, surely XP is to blame ?

 

[Rob Schneider]

See embedded for the only ideas I have left. hard to debug from afar
without looking. Perhaps others will view this thread and have thoughts.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

No complete clean install from scratch.


Would I gain anything?, D and E drives are simply files, nothing more.

Gain a more reliable file system, ability to manage security, and many
more files. You were complaining about it, so I thought I would mention
it was easy to convert.

I wish I knew!!. Everyone telling me XP is the bees knees in OS's I
suppose. Wish I hadn't bothered :-((

Not a good enough reason. Learn from this. XP is more reliable than ME
for sure, but often putting XP on older machine like that typically used
for Win 95, 98, and ME leads to intractable problems.

My heart of hearts wants to go back to Me but it would be better to solve
this problem as everything else works fine.

What is "everything else"?

Could it be an XP corrupt file or registry setting, and, is there a way to
repair XP without having to go through the whole installation over again??

Did it every work? yes, you can do a repair of XP. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341 for
instructions.

Just to repeat......it's not just a PS problem, it's all progs that access
files, surely XP is to blame ?

Recommend not trying to debug this problem by seeking someone or
something to "blame". Instead, think through it logically.

If I were to speculate on root-cause, I would have suspicions of
hardware or hardware drivers. XP as an OS is pretty much debugged and
bullet-proof. It's the interfaces between hardware and XP, and people
and XP, that typically are the root-cause of most problems.

 

[DenisG]

Rob, you are a star sir, and a patient one at that.
Thank you for trying to help, it IS greatly appreciated, as no one else
including MS, Adobe and ACDSee has even tried. 'Our progs cannot cause
problems such as you describe' sort of thing, 'Nothing to do with us!!'
Well ok, I'll follow your suggestions and try to follow this through
logically. I intend to delete most of the progs, clean up, defrag, repair
and see what happens. If everything starts ok again I'll save that as a ref
point and continue a bit at a time. Every piece of Hardware is allegedly XP
compatible with the very latest drivers so I will keep my fingers crossed
there for now. Maybe revert back to Me may be the only full solution.
One thing is a little frightening though. I just took a look in regedit and
can't believe the amount of software and settings in there that I have never
conciously loaded - makes you think!!
Once again, thank you for your valuable time.

Denis

 

[Guest]

Please check for malware using Ad-aware. You can download at www.lavasoftusa.com. I would bet that was your problem