Bridge crashing

[Damien Symonds]

Hi @Farah, can you do this for me?  https://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

[Farah]

I have a PC laptop running windows 10 and Photoshop 2025. It is over 3 years old, and has 20GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 136GB free out of 237GB, and it runs a 128 MB graphics card. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I run a cleanup program about once a month.

[Farah]

23 minutes ago, Farah said:

I have a PC laptop running windows 10 and Photoshop 2025. It is over 3 years old, and has 20GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 136GB free out of 237GB, and it runs a 128 MB graphics card. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I run a cleanup program about once a month.

just to note, I can click on all the other options under the Edit tab and I can see the Keyboard Shortcuts, Color Settings, and Camera Raw Preferences. I just can't get the Preferences options to pop up. 

Edited October 7, 2025 by Farah

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, Farah said:

and it runs a 128 MB graphics card

This can't be right, surely?  Can you check again?

2 hours ago, Farah said:

Its hard drive has 136GB free out of 237GB

These are really feeble specs for modern Adobe, I'm afraid.

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, Farah said:

just to note, I can click on all the other options under the Edit tab and I can see the Keyboard Shortcuts, Color Settings, and Camera Raw Preferences. I just can't get the Preferences options to pop up. 

I'd say you might have to make sure you don't have ANY other programs open (particularly Photoshop) while using Bridge.  And restart pretty frequently.

[Farah]

am I doomed with this laptop? my desktop died recently so this was my emergency backup that I had lying around. 

[Damien Symonds]

Yes