Minor CS3 beta annoyances

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

(All Windows version)
It came with a few services, all eating CPU cycles and doing nothing.
One was showing as mDNSResponder.exe in Processes view of the Task Manager.
In the Services it was shown under one of the weirdest names I ever saw: ##ID_String1.(20 or so more hexadecimal characters).....##.

It turned out to be a part of the Apple(!) Bonjour(!!) (former Rendezvous) thingie.
Boy did it piss me off... Apple software... on Windows?

It goes without saying few minutes later this service was dead in the water, with no chances to come back to live - ever...

Along with it went a couple of others, which seemed to be the part of sooo overcomplicated (and so unreliable) Adobe license management strategy...

Hey, Adobe, we need those CPU cycles and megabytes of RAM for our images, not for your (false) sense of security!

 

[Harvey Moore]

It is used by VersionCue according to folks on the NAPP CS3 forum.

When I disabled Bonjour, bridge began to take a long time starting. Under Edit preferences in bridge, there is a section for startup scripts. After I unchecked VersionCue, things got a little faster when opening Bridge.

harvey

 

[Tim Armes]

It turned out to be a part of the Apple(!) Bonjour(!!) (former Rendezvous) thingie.
Boy did it piss me off... Apple software... on Windows?

Consider yourself lucky, us Apple users are currently having to put up with the close button being on the right hand side of all the palettes! A very intrusive Windowism to the Mac interface.

Tim

 

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

Harvey

It is used by VersionCue according to folks on the NAPP CS3 forum.

When I disabled Bonjour, bridge began to take a long time starting. Under Edit preferences in bridge, there is a section for startup scripts. After I unchecked VersionCue, things got a little faster when opening Bridge.

harvey

Version Cue and meeting was one of the first hing I disabled.
In fact, one of the first thing I did was to go through all the preferences (both Bridge and PS) and got rid of the all that extra stuff that I'm not going to use (mostly on a collaboration side).
Looks like soon we will have to ask for a single player mode (as opposed to multiplayer mode )of the product, just like with the games.

 

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

Tim,

Consider yourself lucky, us Apple users are currently having to put up with the close button being on the right hand side of all the palettes! A very intrusive Windowism to the Mac interface.

Tim

I do, actually... Thus far those intrusions were infrequent (even though extremely annoying) and easily removed)

Cheers, my mac friend!

 

[Will_Perlis]

"After I unchecked VersionCue, things got a little faster when opening Bridge."

I got some messages about Bridge takiing more than 10 seconds to start and a suggestion to uncheck some startup scripts. So, I did just that for all the collaborative stuff.

Anyway, I'm liking this version of Bridge. Right at the moment I'm delighted by the drag-'n'-drop from Explorer into Bridge. The Bridge->ACR->PS seems to be working well enough for me to have (I noticed) almost stopped using LightRoom.

 

[John Burkus]

Just a word of thanks for pointing out ways to get rid of the loading delays and other features that I will never use. It sure speeded things up