Hi I run Photoshop 4 on a Pentium 166, and a Dx4 100 each with 64 megs of RAM and 1 gig hard drives with no problems except that 30 meg files cause lots of disk swapping. But the systems don't often crash. I do restart photoshop every so often to free up memory. I don't find any conflicts between Photoshop and windows 95 (a). I suspect that you have some software conflicts, or possibley some corrupt system files. Also you must have enough free hard disk swap space for at least 5 times the size of the file you're working on in photoshop on the disk you choose in photoshop preferences, plus room for your windows swap file (two different swap files. Everything should be defragmented often to keep swap files contiguous. When I run into this situation an all else fails I reformat my disk and reinstall everything. If you are running a graphics workstation you don't need to many utilities and old junk clogging your hard disk and memory Joel Bluming [log in to unmask] On Mon, 25 May 1998 17:44:42 EDT Digitaskul <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Hi, > > I am in need of some assistance in the selection of what to buy >for a >digital imaging system. Photoshop 4 soon to be 5 is a major memory hog >and >seems to conflict with WIN 95 all the time. I am now using a clone >with 233 >pentium II , 128MB RAM, 512 cache, 2.5GB Hard Drive, 128 bit video >board with >1MB VRAM. The system still locks up on a regular basis, with only >Photoshop >open and working with a small-ish 20 to 30MB file with only two or >three >layers. Is NT an answer? Would WIN 98 solve some of these problems? >How about >an ultra fast Hard Drive? Any help would be welcome. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]