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I just recently experienced problem with my Photoshop, It seem that it is slowing down when I am doing graphics design. Big or small files ( from 20 x 20 inch 300 dpi of resolution to 800x600 72 resolution ) it is really slowing down. Particularly when I am panning to my project It just get stuck for a few seconds then back to normal with slow movement. Can you guess what's wrong?

I have an updated antivirus and I don't think virus is causing it. other adobe suite is working fine just my photoshop. I am running in windows 7, using Intel Core2 Duo 2.40 Ghz and has an Installed Ram of 2 GB. My primary scratch disk has 21 Gigabyte left and the secondary has a 13.89 GB. I need a solution urgently. I am planning to reformat my computer just to resolve my problem.

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Scratch disk? There's your problem right there. – Hello71 Jul 18 '10 at 21:38
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Check your performance settings, especially your cache levels and memory usage.

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There are a number of performance options in Photoshop which you can troubleshoot. They are all listed and detailed in this article. The Mac version is here.

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Have you done any troubleshooting out side of PS? For instance, you can right-click the Windows Task bar and select "Task Manager". Sort the Task list by CPU and then watch which programs bubble up to the top of that list as you work in PS. It may be that something outside PS is slowing your PC down. Try that and let us know which programs are using most of your CPU when you see the PC slow down.

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Yes, I tried monitoring my task manager, I also tried using photoshop without other application running. But it still is slowing down. After I open my Photoshop in few minutes it gradually slows down. Slowing down is very noticeable when I zoom or either pan to my project. this is my first time to experience this kind of slowing down. Before I had used photshop together with other large applications, illustrator, mozilla, media player and didn't experience this kind of slowing down. – Pennf0lio Feb 1 '10 at 15:11
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