How much memmory?

[Keith8]

How much memmory should I have to run PE?

[Bert Bigelow]

Keith,
More is better. 1 Gigabyte is a good number. Less than 512 Megabytes will probably slow you down, particularly when you are working on large images, or multilayer images. Some people think 2 Gigabytes is the right number. Kinda depends on what kind of work you are doing in Photoshop. I ran PSE on a machine with 128 megs for awhile. When working on large images, it was constantly swapping out to disk. It was veeeerrrrryyyyyy slow.
Bert

[Elena Murphy]

Having a dedicated scratch disk that is not your startup volume will also help. You should have this scratch disk/partition/volume be empty of other files that you care about because a scratch disk will become very fragmented very quickly. If your primary scratch disk is your startup volume access to it will be a lot slower. Photoshop/Elements often go straight to scratch disk for complex processing, even if you still have some ram available. But as Bert said, as far as ram, the correct answer to your question is "more".

[Bert Bigelow]

Elena,
I think our thread creator came, posted, and left, never to return.
Oh well. We tried to help.