Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0

[Simon]

When I launch the above, it seems to take an age to load and start up - something like 35 seconds last time, on my new PC, which isn't a slouch.  Does anyone else use Elements, do you find it slow to start, and have you any tricks to make start up faster?

[scook94]

Mine takes about 11 secs to load the first time and about 3 secs if I shut it down and relaunch it. Using a Quad Core Q6600 overclocked at 3.42Ghz, 4Gb Mem and Vista 64-bit...

[Simon]

Mine's an Intel E6750 Core2 Duo 2.66GHz, 4Gb Mem, XP Home, and yes it is quicker on second launch.

[Sebby]

It seems you're not alone...
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c0647c5

I don't think there's a solution there, though.

[Simon]

I'll have a read of that later, thanks Seb. 

[Gary]

I use photo shop elements 6 Simon on Vista and it takes less than 5 seconds to open, 4GB DDR3 and a QX9650  CPU. On my last set up with a dual core E8500 and 4GB DDR3 it was about the same on Vista as well 

[Rik]

Mine's an Intel E6750 Core2 Duo 2.66GHz, 4Gb Mem, XP Home, and yes it is quicker on second launch.

It might be worth looking at where your scratch disk is and how much memory you are allocating to it - assuming it's like Photoshop in this respect. It will launch more quickly if the scratch disk is not on the system disk. Also, check how many fonts you have installed. Anything over about 100 will slow you up.

[Ray]

It might be worth looking at where your scratch disk is and how much memory you are allocating to it - assuming it's like Photoshop in this respect. It will launch more quickly if the scratch disk is not on the system disk. Also, check how many fonts you have installed. Anything over about 100 will slow you up.

Thanks for that, Rik, you've just solved why my Elements 5 seemed slow in loading, I've just changed the scratch disk to my D drive and it now loads in about a quarter of the time it was taking previously. 

[Rik]

Old Photoshop trick, Ray.

[Ray]

Old Photoshop trick, Ray.

The same trick seems to work with Premier Elements 3 the Video editing programme as well.

[Simon]

What's a scratch disk? 

[Rik]

The same trick seems to work with Premier Elements 3 the Video editing programme as well.

It's pretty much core to the Adobe memory management system, Ray, so if there's a scratch disk, moving it off the system disk is always a boost, both in startup and operation.

[Rik]

What's a scratch disk? 

It's the equivalent of the Windows pagefile, Simon. Adobe uses its own memory management system. You should find the setting under preferences.