alt popup in photoshop under windows vista, help!! pretty please :D

[maxetormer]

Hello fellas i have a problem, and I was wondering if you could help me,
I use windows vista and adobe photoshop, and when ever I hit
the alt key, to color pick this dam alt pop up little yellow rectangle
appears, its very bother some because at times it appears right were
I need to color pick, thus blocking the picker, I'm attaching a
screen cap so you can see for your selfs,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/maxetormer/alt.jpg

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks for taking the time to read this :D
its probably solved very easly but alas I haven't
found how to get rid of it :(

-Luis-

[Jabo]

Hm, I experienced that as well when I installed the WACOM drivers on Vista. It has something to do with Vista's new built-in Pen-support. Check out the lower right corner (traybar). There should be a new icon. When you double click it, there's something about arrows and directions. Turn all that stuff off and you should be alright. Vista also uses a writing-detection (should pop up on the left corner of your screen). Also turn that off if you haven't already. That's why Windows isn't meant to be used for creative work ;)

[h2rra]

Make sure you disabled all of those input device options in control panel. I'm going to make a dualboot system and install xp on this machine today. The painting performance is horrible in cs3 and cs2 keeps crashing + pren pressure is missing sometimes, buggy clipboard... :S

If anyone has gotten cs3 to work on vista properly let me know how you did it please.

[Jabo]

Well, CS3 is as fast as it gets on my Vista machine. I just installed it (new rig, so no old OS on the HDD) and installed CS3, also completely from scratch. Works fine, and apart from some minor hangups in games, Vista has proven to be more stable then XP in most cases. I like it quite a bit.

[h2rra]

Hmm, I'll have to compare vista to xp, maybe it's just my hardware. Although I think 2gigs or ram and 1.9gz dual core processor should be enough to paint 1500x2000 canvases without any brush lag. I also like vista, the only thing really bothering me is this brush lag :S

[Xdreamer]

Disable also the "Wacom Virtual HID driver" in your device manager and most of the lags are gone...

[Jabo]

2 gigs of RAM is actually to little to run Vista. Vista takes up at least 1 gig for it's own processes. I ordered 2 gigs with my new comp, but it was rather laggy and geared down the system. So I got myself another 2 gigs yesterday and now the system is up and running.

Anyway, I don't think it's the RAM slowing down your Photoshop. Have you done a clean install or did you overwrite something on an old HDD? Also, do you have proper video drivers installed?