It is no secret here that I think Vista is a piece of SHIT. Yeah, I said it. I too designed for 3 years on my old trusty Dell with XP. I had CS, CS2, and CS3 on that thing with no problems. I then decided to "upgrade" to a blazing fast Vista machine (4 GB ram, Nvidia graphics card, 1 TB HD) and the damn thing never worked right. I had problems from day one. It was slow, would randomly shut down, lock up and sometimes, if I was really lucky, it would need a restart and the shut down process alone would take an hour. Yes, an hour.
I angrily started doing research on this phenomenon only to discover that this is oh-so common with Vista. The damn operating system was not ready for primetime and they released it anyway.
End of the story - I went out and bought a Mac. And guess what? It works. From day one. No problems. I love this thing and will never look back. It is so funny, when I went to the Apple Store and bought my Mac, I told the sales person my story, and he laughed and said Vista has been the number one sales-driver of new Macs. UGH.
It is true that Vista is a major memory hog and PS is also memory intensive. I am not sure what your options are....maybe you could get a copy of XP and install that instead. Just know that I feel your pain and I curse the day Bill Gates allowed Vista to go to market.
Susan
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