Photoshop 7 hangs when away from corp network

[Tim Barnett]

Photoshop 7 installed on several Win XP Pro Dell Inspiron systems with all patches runs fine while on corporate intranet or when not on any network. When laptops are on DSL, cable or dialup Photshop hangs for several mins while attempting to open any image and/or runs very sluggish.

[Chris Cox]

I suspect you have your default printer set to a network printer.

I'll further bet that you use a netware printer (which are known to hang for long periods when the printer isn't available, and sometimes even when it is).

Changing the default printer to a local printer or Distiller should fix it.

[Tim Barnett]

I had a user set his home printer as the default no change... Then he tried using Distiller still no better.

These are all independent installs (media & serials) some Faculty/Staff and some Students all experiencing the same strange behavior. We have installed the Faculty/Staff machines but students have done their own and both experience the same problem(not all but many).

We are strictly an MS & TCP/IP shop

[Phosphor]

Turn off Adobe Web-update, see if that helps.

[tucker johnson]

that did not work either. I have turned off update, deleted all network printers, made my local the default, made sure scratch disks are alocated to the right local drive.

The question is what would photoshop be trying to access when attempting to open a file which is dependent upon the internet or network.

[Chris Cox]

Because you put a file dependent on the network somewhere that Photoshop needs to read: a font, an ICC profile, a plugin, a preset, or something.

Photoshop doesn't go off and read network files all by itself.