She's on a Dell Inspiron 13 7000, a 2 core HT laptop with integrated graphics, 8 GB ddr4, and 512 GB SSD
I've never used Adobe software, so I don't know what the deal is.
She's shown me how every time she goes to make any sort of change to the design, it takes dozens of seconds or minutes to take effect. Not just a low framerate, but just a spinning loading wheel for a crazy long time. She has plenty of free RAM and storage.
Anyone have an Idea?
What kind of files? What kind of adjustment? And what version of Photoshop?
This is important information. I'm currently editing a 75 megapixel photo merge from 5 RAW Files. The merge Locked up photoshop for a solid 40minutes. and editing it is really slow
For reference I'm on a 5930K 32GBs ram & an r9-290
This is a new issue, and there was no change as far as she is aware of.
She's doing some not-too-resource-intensive graphic design, and with any sort of project, it's an issue. No big raw files or something.
She bought her license several weeks ago.
Sorry but that is not a lot of info, really.
"She got some Photoshop, she does things, it gets slow."
Maybe lookup the build number and google for new posts on that behavior?
Sorry. . trying to get computer info out of her is tricky, and I'm not familiar with the Adobe suite
on a more serious note, probably have to edit settings like Hutch said
Hutch's suggestion is a good start. You need a decent cache size/reserved RAM for bigger files. \
Also @Cavemanthe0ne is right, that is hardly enough to do the kind of workload you're trying to do. Hyperthreading is cool but can only do so much.
a 15watt cpu like the i7-7200U/7500u dosn't have the power to run photoshop you'll need a i5-6300HQ or i7-6700HQ for that. even a i7-4700mq laptop would work.
Depends on the file size and the type of editing she's doing. Edit a 16Mpixel file doing only some color correction shouldn't be an issue. A friend of mine has been doing such thing on an i3 notebook with 4GB of RAM and a mechanical HDD, that's it. Also: is she using a legit paid version of the software? Just asking out of curiosity because cracked software may act in weird ways at times and this looks like it to me really.
Check:
1. disk fragmentation
2. windows event logs
3. adobe output logs