My CS3 Extended often pauses and even becomes marked as "Not Responding" by Vista during the opening of an image file. The CS3 windows goes white, and then after a while (eg., 20 seconds) it paints with the open image but with the toolbars white (not repainted). During the 'not responding', I think there is internet activity initiated by CS3.

Perhaps CS3 is locking up while waiting for an internet activity to finish (hence the problem only occurs when the correspondent is slow).

Just now I was running a File->Scripts->Image Processor command, batch-processing a few dozen images, during which CS3 was apparently checking the internet as each image was opened. During this particular run, whatever was at the other end did not always respond promptly, slowing down the batch run, even to the point of getting 'Not Responding' a few times.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is CS3 talking to the internet as part of opening an image? If so, why? Could it be checking watermarks or licensing? Can I stop it from doing that (because I'm concluding whatever is at the other end doesn't have the capacity to make its response quick enough to be unobtrusive -- it's interfering with my work and isn't benefiting me).

Initially I thought it might be CS3 checking validation, but since I now see it happening within a batch cycle, I believe the problem/delay is associated with file opening, not application opening.

The same delay can occur when an image is dragged into an already-open CS3 window. I conclude the delay is related to opening.

Of course I'd like CS3 image opening to be very fast. On Vista, CS3 itself opens wonderfully within seconds, and it's annoying to be waiting more seconds just for image opening, especially when it goes 'not responding'.

Any ideas or suggestions?

I'm running PS CS3 Extended 10.0.1 on Vista Home Premium, all up to date, all fairly standard, on a new machine.

Jim_Elder

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