Very long to open PSP. 26 seconds today...Why soooo slooow?

[Despotes]

I've been averaging about 10-15 seconds from clicking on a pic until the program opens and the pic is displayed. Today a .jpg (272KB) took 26 seconds from clicking the pic to PSP opening and displaying it.
I have everything disabled in startup and all non Microsoft services except Protexis unchecked.
PSP ProX4 was just purchased and installed last week and has the latest patch.
Intel 2600K @ 4.5Ghz/8Gb RAM/1Tb main HDD/Asus Radeon 5870/Asus P8P67 Deluxe mobo.
Why is PaintShop Pro X4 so crazy slow to open?

[flagpole]

it's a very good question.

it takes over 30 seconds on my computer. it is the slowest launching application i have. slower than PS cs5.

it doesn't appear to be doing much during that 30 seconds either. i could be wrong but i think it's something to do with protexis.

[ADonahoo]

I would love for X4 to open in 26 seconds. Just now on my Windows XP computer, it took 55 seconds for the X4 desktop to appear and another 3 minutes for the hourglass to go away so I could actually use the program. It might open faster if it was not trying to load the last folder I had open in the organizer but I would have to wait those minutes if I opened the organizer afterwards.

[dheijl]

It takes 6 seconds the first time I open PSP X4, after that it takes just 4 seconds.

I have disabled nothing on my computer except the PSP organizer (excluded all file extensions, excluded all disks and folders).

Danny

[brucet]

About 3 - 5 seconds on my machine. (Asus with 4gig. i3.500gig HD)
Much much faster than x3 ever was.
It's now a joy to open and close x4 whenever I want it.

There must be a technical reason why it varies so much.
Try clearing the cache. Close x4 and then reopen it. See if there's a difference.

[Ken Berry]

FWIW, mine takes 15 seconds to open the program on a newly rebooted computer. The splash screen indicates various elements of the program are being loaded. If I then close the program, don't reboot the computer, and then reopen X4 at some later stage it takes just over 5 seconds to reopen. So obviously some aspects of the program stay resident. That is on an i3 4 GB ram 1TB HDD. Opening photos in a variety of formats, and sizes, is always near instantaneous.

[teknisyan]

There are many reasons why this happens. But the most common cause is the workspace, you may want to reset your workspace.

NOTE: All customization that you made will be removed.

You can do that by pressing and holding down the SHIFT key then double-click on the PSP icon then when you received the message "DO YOU WAN TO RESTORE PAINTSHOP Pro TO ITS DEFAULT STATE?" just click OK.

[Despotes]

Resetting my workspace didn't help.

[ADonahoo]

Resetting my workspace on my XP computer had interesting results. The first time I tried to reopen I had to re-register and that makes about a dozen times by now. I opened a folder in the Navigation pane, with only 18 images, closed and reopened. It took 45 second this time; closed and reopened again and this time it took 3 minutes and 30 seconds to open to the same place. I didn't open a single image, or reset my preferences or anything else, just open and close, open and close, and open.

[brucet]

I find that if I click on a file from a folder PSPx4 will take about 15 seconds to open that file to a stage where it can be worked on. However if I first start x4 then 'Open' the same file then it takes a total of about 10 seconds. (5 to start PSPx4 and 5 to open the file). So it's always quicker to open x4 first rather than jumping striaght from the file.

Not sure that helps.

[df]

Do you have the Organizer Palette enabled in your workspace? Does closing that change anything?

[brucet]

I don't use the Organiser at all. The only thing I use x4 for is the Edit mode.
Maybe that's the difference.

[Ken Berry]

Nope. I also only use the Edit page (and without Organizer)... and the above times were based on that.