Illustrator and Photoshop not responding

[Jason1]

I started illustrator this morning and when I go to open a file it just goes into not responding and will eventually get to the files. It was working fine 3 days ago. Anyone else have this happen. The computer is plenty powerfull. I guess I will do a system restore to 3 days ago. Other programs including flexi work just fine. I have rebooted with not luck. Any ideas?

 

[Boudica]

I started illustrator this morning and when I go to open a file it just goes into not responding and will eventually get to the files. It was working fine 3 days ago. Anyone else have this happen. The computer is plenty powerfull. I guess I will do a system restore to 3 days ago. Other programs including flexi work just fine. I have rebooted with not luck. Any ideas?

My aps get painfully slow sometimes. Restarting my computer usually helps.

 

[Kemik]

Does it does this for any file, or just one specific file?

 

[Solventinkjet]

Open Windows resource monitor and watch which resource might be causing a bottleneck. For example, the hard drive might spike to 100% and stay there indicating you probably don't have a lot of free space to work with. Could be failing memory or CPU as well but you have to check it out. Might not be any of those things either.

 

[Jeff grossman]

what operating system and what ver. of photoshop and illustrator are you using ? you could try :
delete files in your temp files folder - when they add up they slow your system way down - also depending what version operating system and ver of photoshop & illustrator you're using you can change the program to compatibility mode

 

[jfiscus]

With the newer "subscription" updates from Adobe, I find a lot of them to be pretty flakey. I would see if there is an update you haven't updated to yet and go ahead with it. That usually fixes the issue here if a reboot can't cure it.