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Patti

Patti

CT4Val, Heather, Sabrina
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Can you tell me what the size of your hard drive is and how much Ram is in your machine?
My desktop is continually shutting down with the amount of layering and such I do in PSE 7,and I'm thinking that a bigger hard drive would fix the problem.

Another question, I don't know if I can 'add' more to my system.. my computer is about 5ish years old, probably wiser to just buy a new tower???

I do have a almost two year old Toshiba laptop that hardly has 20 hours on it, but I much prefer to scrap on my desktop.

Suggestions, info, appreciated:)
 
If your computer is shutting down due to the program, then it is most likely the RAM. We're in the process of bumping up our computers to a minimum 2GB of RAM at work but some older PCs don't have the processing power or slots to handle the upgrade.

I've got 3GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
 
I have 2 GB Ram, and a 250 GB hard drive, I believe it is. I upgraded to 2 GB of ram when I bought it, and they told me I couldn't buy any more Ram as it was at it's max.
 
Ohhhh, I have to look at upgrading/buying.. It takes me SO long to do a layout now... if you don't mind me asking Jenn, what is a 'big mama, hard drive like that cost"?
 
Uh... 8GB RAM I think? And I have 1TB hard drive. But all my scrapping stuff is on my EHD in case I ever actually want to scrap on my laptop (as if, that thing is a dinosaur, I'd throw it out the window before I ever got thru a page).
 
i scrap only on my laptop. it has 10 gigs of ram and a 1TB HD. my desktop has 10 gigs of ram and 750 GB HD.
its the RAM that makes it faster. im about to up the ram on the desktop as we are making that into a gaming computer
 
I purchased the RAM for about $70 and my computer guy installed it for next to nothing (he is family). It is the RAM that makes it run faster, the HD is just your storage space. If you are going to purchase a new desktop, go for the most RAM you can afford.
 
i agree with Jenn. i dont look at the HD space, i look at how much RAM it has and how much more I can add on to it. you can always get another EHD for storage.
 
I have a Intel Core2 duo, it's about 3 or 4 years old...it's only 2 GB of Ram, and sometimes it shuts down if I'm using lots of things, specially if it' a huge LO...plus music, plus hundreds of internet tabs, msn...lol...but, I have to say...at the beggining it never happened, only now that the HD is almost ful(750Gb)....don't know if has any relation....
 
Having a full HD could cause issues too though... if there isn't any space for the cache and swap for the internal CPU use, it could cause it to shut down. You could get an external HD pretty cheap like around $50-60 and move some stuff onto that and free up some space on your internal HD just to see if that helps. A disk defrag is always a good idea too. That's under Control Panel.
 
I have two EHD's that I send my kits to when I have finished with them - it takes me hours to complete a layout as the PSE keeps shutting down, very frustrating.. thanks for the info ladies!
My car is paid for this month, so I will def. be getting a big Mama Kahoona upgrade or CPU!! LOL!!
Disk defrag, will do that... I know I empty 'browsing' stuff etc, regularly.. not sure if that is the same thing, or not?
 
My desktop is a Touch System - Dual Core Processor.. is there any 'brand' etc, that I should look for, I want to do things RIGHT this time and not have to worry about an upgrade..kwim?
 
My husband (who owns his own computer consulting company) would tell you to get a new computer. Anything five years old is too old and you'd get more for your money to buy something new (that's what he'd say at least - I have no clue LOL). And what Karen said - your HD can most definitely have a negative impact on performance if it's getting too full.
 
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