Does anyone have any tips to make Lightroom run faster?

Question

I'm running Lightroom 2.6 on Windows XP and it runs painfully slow. Just navigating from one image to the next takes a few seconds.

What can I do to speed it up?

Answer

Don't let the catalogue grow too large.

Separating your pictures into several catalogues can bring a lot of speed.

For me the main waiting point is waiting for Lightroom to render the 1:1 previews - if I let Lightroom render those on import I can usually work faster.

Of course putting the catalogue on a fast hard disk (SSD) helps, too.

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