Extremely Sluggish after Using Edit Toolbar
Picking any tool from Edit Toolbar will bring Illustrator to a crawl. Popups become unresponsive for around 5 seconds. If I start Illustrator while holding down Shift Ctrl Alt, it works great - but only when I do so. If I don't, it's back to being slow. Running Illustrator as an Administrator also makes it run great.
Christopher Smith
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I'm running Illustrator 2026, but I have the same issue on Illustrator 2025.
I don't use Illustrator often, so I don't know exactly when it happened. When I do use it, it's usually in a rush, so when this issue popped up it became a real problem and I had to work around Illustrator entirely.
First noticed the problem about a month ago, but only now have I been able to play around with it and figure out what triggers it and the work arounds I mentioned before.
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Device name CGSmithCNC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900 (2.00 GHz)
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable)
Graphics card NVIDIA RTX A4000 (16 GB)
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 (128 MB)
Storage 1.34 TB of 4.57 TB used
Device ID 7CF26106-AACD-46AB-8BB4-31212C41B8BE
Product ID 00355-62402-12115-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Pen support -
So it means that some of the 1st party plugins cause this.
Can you share more specifics about your OS, hardware, Windows user account status, please?
Do you recall anything like this in prior builds of Ai? Which version are you on? How does Beta build behave? -
I don't have any plugins added to Illustrator.
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Just to clarify — if you are using third-party plugins, what are these?
