so ever since I purchased sublimetext3 and registered it, I can run it for a few minutes (no more than 5) and my laptop freezes. I mean everything. On occasion there is a major delay in typing as well. I never had this problem until I purchased it. quite frustrating that I actually invested in this and now the dang thing isn’t usable!!! has anyone else had this problem and were you able to fix it? I allowed the permissions. running on a Lenovo yoga 20332.
Causing the whole laptop to freeze!
qgates
#2
Though it seems that way, the issue isn’t connected with registering Sublime. So far as I am aware, functionally, registered and unregistered copies are identical. So you’ll need to do a little investigating as the problem is likely down to one of two things:
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A plugin that’s gone rogue. Sublime doesn’t protect itself against plugins that eat resources like crazy and that’s often a reason for resource-limited machines to get slow to the point of unresponsive.
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The indexer process. If you load up a large project Sublime will set off a bunch of processes to index everything for ‘Goto Definition’ and related functions to work. Again, on resource limited machines (usually laptops) this can heavily load the machine and make it unresponsive.
Turning to solutions, for situations involving (1) above it’s best to find the offending plugin(s). Start with a clean, portable install of Sublime, then add in the plugins you’re using one by one. Alternatively, you can start selectively disabling the plugins in your live copy until you find the one that fixes the problem.
If the cause of your issue is (2), you can either restrict the amount of resources (threads) it uses or disable it altogether. Obviously the former is preferable. Override the preferences "index_workers" to set the amount of threads and "index_files" to disable indexing altogether. Start with the latter to see if that’s your problem and, if it is, re-enable it and try setting workers to, say, 2.
Good luck 
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Acecool
#3
The only differences should be the nag on save is gone and you aren’t required to see the updated version dialog every time you launch st3…
Can you show us your console contents? That may help give an idea of what’s happening… Also look at Task Manager and see if it is Sublime Text which is consuming all of the memory / CPU or if it is a different process… It could be some other program entirely or it could be an addon as qgates suggested.
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