Crashing Out

[madafk]

Hi
I have been using Photoshop 7 for a couple of months now, on Saturday Photoshop 7 ran through the usually start up screen but crashed out when it reached the loading brushes stage. This continued every time I started photoshop.I re-installed, removed all common files and even restored an earlier clean XP restore point. No matter what I try I cannot get past the loading bruches phase as photoshop just closes. Any Ideas?

 

[greensweater]

Try resetting your preferences. When launching photoshop, hold down ctrl-alt-shift.

 

[madafk]

greensweater
Many many thanks, never knew about that worked, it worked a treat.

 

[samtt]

I had the same problem in Windows 2000 I renamed a file named "Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Prefs.psp" located in "c:\Documents and Settings\%user name%\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\" with a new file extension so photoshop did not recognize the file when it loaded and it asked me again for the color settings and it works great.

G O O D L U C K

 

[samtt]

C O R R E C T I O N ! ! TO THE ABOVE PATH:
C:\Documents and Settings\"%user name%"\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings\

 

[SPYDERIX]

samtt,

What's the point of changing the extension, that's just the same as it not being there, so why not just delete it instead of re-naming the extension. Photoshop will create a new one if it can't find the prefs file so now you will have 2 files (1 being the new file and the other being useless and taking up space).

Nate

http://www.mainframe-webdesign.com

 

[samtt]

SPYDERIX,

Just that you feel comfortable/safe not deleting the file.
Technically you are right.

You can delete it afterwards too.