ACDSee killed my computer?

[Tesia]

I am really trying not to freak out, but ever since last night my computer has been crashing...really badly. I was able to do a fair amount in photoshop with ACDSee open for awhile, but that was after it crashed (just shut off) a couple times and then it did again later in the night. I haven't been able to get it to stay on for more than 20 minutes at all today. I uninstalled ACDSee and ran a sweep on my computer, but something is still messing with it and I am loosing my mind. I count on my scraping time every night to round out my day (and I have tons of cute pictures from this weekend to play with!).
Has anyone else had eperience with this? I feel like I remember seeing a post about memory issues or something, but I am writing this from my blackberry so it is kind of tricky to navigate the message boards...
Oh, and BTW - my computer is 5 years old but I just added 2GB of RAM and it has been supporting PSE 7 no problem...

[hguenthe]

I know nothing about ACDSee but here is the other post that I think you were mentioning seeing.

[iUma]

Hey, Tesia. Sorry about this. I know it is maddening. I hate to have to volunteer this info but I had that problem when I my RAM failed. And it wasn't very old either. If you can't find any other reasons, consider that and it=f it is recent perhaps there is a warranty on the RAM. Let us know.

[faerywings]

Have you optimized you ACDsee database recently?
If I don't optimize at least once a week, I get a lot of hang ups and freezes.
In general ACDSee uses very little memory compared to other programs.

The other thing that could make Photo Manager crash is if there is a file name that is too long. If you recently downloaded something that has along file name, you can go through Windows to rename it to something shorter.
Oh I just looked at the other thread that was mentioned and Marcie discussed it.
And definitely check out digiscrapinfo.com and acdsee.com for more tips.

[Tesia]

Originally Posted by phfphd

Hey, Tesia. Sorry about this. I know it is maddening. I hate to have to volunteer this info but I had that problem when I my RAM failed. And it wasn't very old either. If you can't find any other reasons, consider that and it=f it is recent perhaps there is a warranty on the RAM. Let us know.

Oh man, that would be so sad! But THANK YOU so much for putting that out there...not something I would have ever thought of but certainly worth considering! It seems to be behaving slightly better (?) at the moment...I haven't tried opening anything other than my virus scan but I don't think it has crashed on that yet today?

[Tesia]

Yay! I managed to do two layouts tonight in PSE7 with no problems. ACDSee is no longer on the computer though...don't know if I am going to be brave enough to try putting it back on?