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  1. Photoshop running crappy

    First of all, get more RAM. RAM is the most bang for your buck and easy to upgrade. 4GB is your limit with a 32bit OS. Secondly, get a bigger scratch disk. I have seen wrap files use 300+GB on a scratch disk, and that is on a system with 8GB of RAM, with Photoshop using all 3GB of the RAM...
  2. Please Help!~!

    MSI is a great motherboard company. I used them for 5 years (hundreds of computers) and had maybe 3 problems that were actually related to the boards. Drivers can be an issue though. I would highly suggest that you download all the newest drivers from their website as well as the newest...
  3. Please Help!~!

    that point in when windows is loading and takes a brief pause is when it is loading drivers (you can actually see the video driver load, as it flashes). The crcdisk.sys is a block verification filter driver. If it is happening every month or so, the same exact way, then I would look to...
  4. Please Help!~!

    Sounds to be a chipset driver issue. look here Did you install the chipset drivers or let Vista just choose for you?
  5. Crank It Up!!!

    Flame, depending on the motherboard and BIOS, you may be able to upgrade to the newest Core2Quad processor out there. I think you are getting some bad info here. Striping a few drives is great, but more RAM (8GB and a 64bit OS) will help a lot too. Pentium D are sockett 775 (same as the...
  6. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Techman, I don't know you and I haven't been on this forum very long, but you sure do seem to have a way of accepting your own opinion as fact and dismissing others as stupidity. What good did this comment do for anyone? There seem to be a lot of good points brought out for both sides...
  7. How about this one

    No problem... if I understand you correctly, you want to merge a bunch of layers, but still leave a copy of the original layers in tact? I would duplicate the layers, then select one copy of each layer and create a smart object. Then you can edit the smart object seperately. The smart...
  8. I love signs

    Welcome JC!
  9. Corel Draw or Adobe which do you prefer?

    I didn't mean to put down Corel at all, if that is how it was taken. My opinion is that Adobe's Creative Suite is the standard in the overall design arena. That doesn't mean that Corel isn't a good subsitute. I know several screenprinters and embroidery shops that would DIE without Corel...
  10. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Was not around? You think I am how old? Was alive, kicking, and even potty-trained by then. You mean to tell me that the the RCs didn't give developers and techs (minus the security vendors) time to know what Vista was all about? Come on... XP was a hated "teletubbie" OS. I still...
  11. Blending two layers

    add a vector mask to one of the layers and use the gradient tool (black and white) to create the "blend"
  12. Corel Draw or Adobe which do you prefer?

    I really like the Adobe Suite. It is (or is becoming) the industry standard in design. You will probably want, at least, Illustrator (vector) and Photoshop (raster).
  13. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Why would I do this if I were not inspired by my own experience? MS doesn't write me a check (wish they did). It makes no difference to me at all if I install XP or Vista, other than I think that those who shy away from Vista are missing out. I do understand that there are still those who have...
  14. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Wow... harsh. I do real work all day long on my Vista system. I am even able to do it at a pretty good pace. I can't think of anything that I could do in XP that I can't do in Vista (there may be something, but not off the top of my head). It is fair to say that: On the same hardware, XP is...
  15. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    And you think this was a Vista issue? Did the computer have other issues or just this? I think that many people find it very easy to blame Vista when it could very possibly have been a problem in the software that they are trying to run on Vista. Changing back to XP was probably a great...
  16. Production Manager keeps crashing

    You are not the only ones.... we have seen it A LOT lately. Are you by chance connecting to the printer via a Intel "network card"? It is not a sure cause, but it has been rumored to be a problem with Flexi. We are seeing Flexi shut down, stop right in the middle of jobs, etc, etc.
  17. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Not entirely true. I have SP1 ,and still running DreamScene, the most popular "Extra". DreamScene and the Content pack are available throught Windows Update, jst as they were before. MS is jsut putting less emphasis on them as people were basically ignoring them anyhow. They are new, no one knew...
  18. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    Well it depends on how much you wait on your computer now. With 64Bit and 8GB of RAM, my Vista system moves. It moves fast. If you are designing on PS and waiting and waiting, then 64 bit with more RAM might help. Faster design times help you make more $$$. Even with 4GB of ram, everything...
  19. Vista Sucks ? ! ? !

    OK ladies and gentleman... Gotta go to work now. Thanks for the feedback and stimulating conversation!
  20. Hello all!

    Welcome Chappy...
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