Donna

I have checked and deleted all of my tmp files. I ran another scandisk
and defrag this morning. No problems found on scandisk. Only one new
program recently--FontManager, but it is latest version and I believe
the problems started prior to this little program.

An interesting development has occurred. I am trying frantically to
backup all of my files (fearing the worst) to my CD burner. When I tried
to backup one of my large folders of design files, the CD failed to back
up and told me that there was a problem writing to disk--of course it
didn't point to a particular file--just said it couldn't do it. The file
was only 400+mg and I am using 800 mg CDs. My next thought is to open
this graphic folder and begin backing up the files one by one until I
find one that won't write to disk. Naturally, all of the files in this
folder are either Illy, PS or InDesign.

Question: If there is a corrupted PS file (one of mine--not PS), could
this cause the program to behave like this? BTW, I have also deleted all
of my presets and gone to default, but still the problems persist. Took
3 minutes to respond to the command File-New. Jeez, of course, I
basically can't do a damn thing at this rate. I'll be happy to entertain
any more suggestions. Thanks everyone for trying to help me--I do
appreciate it.

Don wrote:
> Also, have you installed any new software or hardware lately? The symptoms
> you describe are also consistent with a faulty driver, often an old one. If
> that's the case, you might look for an updated driver. M$ had a lot of
> trouble with plug-and-pray in Win9x.
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> Don
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> "Donna" <donnamcm@nospamplsworldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>>Running Win98SE, 512 mg Ram, 19 gig harddrive (9+ gig free), PS7.01
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>>A recent problem has developed with PS. Just trying to accomplish the
>>simplest task is taking forever. Example: I just tried to open a file in
>>PS that is simply a 6x8 postcard with 2 sets of guidelines (bleed area
>>on card). I waited 4 minutes and gave up and ctrl+alt+del informed me
>>that PS was not responding. Another example, with a PS file open (132 mg
>>file size) I clicked on a layer to change the color overlay of an
>>effect. Took over 3 minutes to bring up the correct window to do this.
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>>I have reinstalled PS7.01, scandisk, defrag & checked for viruses and
>>rebooted between problems. Also, fyi I don't have any other programs
>>open while using PS--including virusscan--nada--except what Windows
>>programs have to run in background.
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>>I am very concerned as the school semester is rapidly approaching and I
>>will be taking another PS and Illustrator class. Jeez--a new hard drive
>>or worse, a new computer?????? Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks in
>>advance.
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