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Arc-sama:
I just used CCleaner to clean things up from windows, application and the registry and I opened adobe Photoshop and got this message pop up.


--- Quote ---You currently have Adobe Photoshop's Primary Scratch and Windows' primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance.  It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop's Primary Scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical drive.
--- End quote ---

What are the Primary Scratch and Primary Paging File?? ... Can I just ignore it or do I really need to move Photoshop to a different hard drive???


OS: XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP3
Adobe Photoshop 7.0

ilk3000:
I would recommend upgrading.

zherok:
It's just going to say the same thing with an upgraded copy. ::)

Anyway, no. You set the scratch page separately from the installation. It's just recommended because otherwise they compete for the same hard drive space. If you have another hard drive handy you can switch your page file and get some minor performance gains you might not ever notice. For casual usage it's not something that's going to affect you.

You can change it in the Edit -> Preferences menu. It's under Performance in CS3, but I don't have a copy of 7.0 handy to see if it's the same for that. Should be easy enough to find though.

kureshii:
If you haven't experienced any problems with Photoshop before that dialog box popup, then it's not an issue. CCleaner probably cleaned some of PhotoShop's registry settings, resulting in it "forgetting" that it has asked you that question before, so now it's asking you again. If you don't want this to happen every time you run CCleaner, make sure you uncheck Photoshop under the Applications tab.

Arc-sama:
Thanks Guys.  I am getting a sweet copy of CS4 from my tech guy soon.

@ Zherok
There is no Performance section (at lease not one marked as such) in the Preferences for 7.0, I just checked. But since you said it isn't something that I have to worry about I'm going to just ignore the message.

@ Kureshii
Thanks you for the tip, I don't run CCleaner offen. I will go change the setting before I forget.

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