Dragging images is causing serious CPU consumption and sometimes freezes my PC, what's the problem? Options

[illriginal]

Hey what's up guys, well basically I have Windows XP with a Pentium 4 2.5GHz CPU and 992 MB of RAM


The problem I'm currently having is that when I drag images within Photoshop, the CPU usage shoots up, and there's been a few times that my PC just freezes. Right now Photoshop is installed onto my Primary drive, the C:

But I have a 200HD, and I only used up 6GBs as of now.

What exactly is causing my PC to freeze? Oh and by the way, I just re-installed my Windows XP so basically it's running as fast as possible since I don't have useless crap on my hard drives anymore.

The one and only thing I can think of... is the paging file. The total paging file size for all drives is 1488MB. Is there any tweaking of any sort that I can do? I'm seriously not lookin forward to doing any upgrades to my PC... I just recently replaced both my RAM sticks with two 512s.

What do you think I should do?

[magicfann]

uh...no ok the friggin gpu doesnt have anything to do with the fact that tama's computer is bad, the specs are ok but you have a sh1t processor, i suggest getting a new computer

or...

see if you have a virus

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

uh...no ok the friggin gpu doesnt have anything to do with the fact that tama's computer is bad, the specs are ok but you have a sh1t processor, i suggest getting a new computer

or...

see if you have a virus

How is his Computer Processor Shit? It's a 2.5 Pentium 4. Thats still pretty fast, it can run any of the new games that are on the market, including fear or Prey.

His video card is also good enough to run Photoshop. I have a crap builtin Intel one on this card and I can run Photoshop and Imageready just fine.

Explain this to me, what do you mean dragging images? Maybe If I understood what your were doing and what the problem was, I can help you.

[magicfann]

How is his Computer Processor Shit? It's a 2.5 Pentium 4. Thats still pretty fast, it can run any of the new games that are on the market, including fear or Prey.

His video card is also good enough to run Photoshop. I have a crap builtin Intel one on this card and I can run Photoshop and Imageready just fine.

Explain this to me, what do you mean dragging images? Maybe If I understood what your were doing and what the problem was, I can help you.

yes his processor is crap cuz he doesnt have dual AMDs like i do...and every single goddamn vid card made since a long time ago has been good enough to run photoshop, integrated GPUs can run photoshop so i dont know what ur talking about
so i must be cool~

i think its either a virus or ur CPU's messed up

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

yes his processor is crap cuz he doesnt have dual AMDs like i do...and every single goddamn vid card made since a long time ago has been good enough to run photoshop, integrated GPUs can run photoshop so i dont know what ur talking about
so i must be cool~

i think its either a virus or ur CPU's messed up

Oh, so if he doesn't have dual core AMD Athlon Fx-62s that cost 900 Dollars, his processor is shit. Either your some 10 year old who researches computer parts, or thinks thats saying your "cool", makes you funny then you need to wake up and read the stupidity in your posts. How are you cool because you have Dual AMDs? Your probably the loser people in School pick on, and comes home to the internet, and thinks he can be cool here.

Hm, if you haven't reformatted, do that.
You might not have a virus perse, but could have some serious malware and spyware/adware on your computer. Those don't even run in the backround, but slow your computer down like hell. You might have a virus. Just go to task Manager, and see what the biggest processors are, and just close those. See if that helps. You could have some kind of ram stealing bandwidth hogging program in the back, like eDonkey or something.