[@Sullican Miranda]
>”To those who tried it longer than three minutes, did you also get any lag with the cursor?”
Everyone’s computer can be slightly different depending on CPU/RAM, etc. I have used Pixel Studio three different times since installing, one was over an hour, the other two were 20 to 30 minutes. I just tested again and I have not noticed any lag whatsoever, and I have a background job that is testing a Flash drive that takes up a considerable amount of CPU time. I can hear the CPU Fan racing constantly, but there is no sign of any difference attributed to Pixel Studio. In addition, I have 8 other programs running at the same time and sometimes as many as 15 other processes but they are not CPU eaters, just regular tools.
The OS is responsible for moving the mouse pointer around and displaying where it is located, so any lag on the display part would be OS related, not Pixel Studio. Pixel Studio draws the cursor in current use wherever the OS reports that the cursor is located. Swap back and forth to other applications. If the lag occurs only when Pixel Studio is front and center, then something odd is happening. At that point, I would reboot.
I do not know if Pixel Studio can run in Safe Mode (did not spend the time to try) but if it can run in Safe Mode, that would show whether the “lag” you experienced was program-related or due to other processes running in the background. If it only happens when Pixel Studio is running, then you might check to see if there are some other programs that are eating up resources, such as malware. The edition available on SoS is not infected and works fine.
Pixel Studio does stop working without a smooth release from the OS when it is first run and activated. Windows reports the program stopping, so it definitely is a program issue in its activation code. The program is not merely stopping so that the next run will have the key be registered as MrDave suggested. That type of exit would not have the OS report that the program stopped working.
If your activation attempt stated “Invalid Key” check to make sure you have copied only the key characters because the program does work on the next run after registration and works just fine.
Best of luck to you.