Over the last month I had begun to notice significant performance issues
when working with Photoshop CS3 eventually culminating Photoshop crashing when
trying to load any file. Apparently PS has some major bugs and issues involving
network printers.
If your default printer is a network printer Photoshop will stall and delay
when opening any file.
Our printer at S4 is attached to another computer which I access over the
network, last week we replaced that system with a new notebook, which was given
a different name and place on the network leaving me with a broken printer
connection. Apparently this was the cause of Photoshop crashing. Try to keep
your default printer set as a local device if you're experiencing any of the
same issues.
I was also experiencing some of the toolbars and other windows being blank
until I rolled over them but this seems to be fixed by updating the Adobe suite.