I use a version of FreeHand MXa and am facing huge prblems with the working speed of the software. basic operations make the screen freeze up and i have to wait till it normalises. the rest of my computer is running just fine and it's only this software which has this problem.

is there a patch or an update or something i can add to it to fix this problem?

thanks

suk

Have you looked at this page?
http://www.adobe.com/support/freehand/updaters.html