I am currently using photoshop cs2 and have been for a few months.  recently(as in the last month or so) whenever I run photoshop it freezes up my system.  I go into taskmanager and I can see that it is using 100% of my cpu and is bogging everything down till I cant work with it at all.  It didn't used to do this.  I know you all will want to know the specs of my system so here goes.  I am running a amd athilon 64 fx chip running at 2.8.  I have thought about overclocking it but to date have not done so.  I also have 1 tarabyte of hard drive space and 2gb of ram.  I have a beafy system and I  haven't talked about my graphics engine either.

I don't know what could have happned to make photoshop do this.  I have even went into preferences and changed the available ram to max and went into task manager properties and changed it's priority to low.  No matter what I can do it is still freezing me up to the point I cant even work with photoshop anymore. everything runs so slow and the filters and states take so long to take effect that I get frustrated and just kill it.

has anyone else ever dealt with this and if so how did you fix it?  I am planning an uninstall and reinstall but if I can avoid doing that I would love it.  Any ideas?

Mine did that a while ago ... the only thing I could do was uninstall and reinstall for a clean setup. 

Since CS2 accesses the internet all the time, you might want to clear out your cache and temp files, too.  I do that on a regular basis now (got that little gem from the CS2 forum at Adobe).

if you want to save the "uninstall/reinstall" as the last possible option try tossing out the PREFs (preference) file. usually when PS starts to act "wonky" tossing the file and forcing PS to rebuild a new one fixes up most probs. The files sometimes gets corrupted and can cause a number of unpleasentries!

you can delete it "on the fly" by holding down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift (MAC: Cmd+Opt+Shift) right after you launch PS. you should be prompted to "delete", let go of the keys and agree. it'll be rebuilt and the factory setting restored.

hope it helps
retrocity

quote: "Since CS2 accesses the internet all the time"

???

I use 7, just got CS2 (not installed yet) but the "workhorse computer" is not in contact with the internet except for the moment of registration of applications. Afterwards it's disconnected from the net. I can't imagine this will be a problem?