# Flash itself running slow

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-itself-running-slow/218851>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 11, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-itself-running-slow/218851 "2007-03-11T21:57:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Icy\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@Icy\_Penguin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Icy_Penguin)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-itself-running-slow/218851/1 "2007-03-11T21:57:40Z")

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Hi all,

Just bought my new HP notebook with Vista on it

Installed Flash 8 and everything seems to be running smoothly.

However, when (in Flash itself) you doubleclick on a movieclip on the stage (to edit it), the little ‘marching ants’ rectangle opens up before you can edit the movieclip.

It takes like 5 or 6 seconds for the marching ants box to open up - is this a memory issue?

EDIT: I seem to remember it happening in Photoshop too, so it isn’t a Flash problem.