If anyone can be of any help, I would be immensely appreciative. There are a lot of people out there with the same problem, but no answers have worked for me so far.
Issue: Approx 5 seconds after Flash MX Pro 2004 (and Flash 8 demo) splash screen hits "Initializing Fonts," Windows XP reports an error, Flash closes.
Seemingly pertinent:
• Alienware computer, XP Pro SP2 - all updates
• 1.25 GB RAM, 19.6 GB free disk space on main disk
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Pro (purchased full version upgraded to 7.2)
• Adobe Type Manager
• Just before Flash crashes, any open Explorer windows briefly seem to refresh, in that all the icons disappear and then reappear in an instant
What doesn't work:
• Installation
- Repair Installation
- Reinstallation
- Uninstall followed by complete wipe of all Macromedia files on the entire drive and removal of Macromedia reg values
- Doing it again but also involving registry deep-cleaning utilities.
- Brand new installation of Flash 8 demo has the same problem
• Removing Adobe Type Manager fonts
• Uninstalling Adobe Type Manager
• Repairing fonts with Font Xpress (nothing needs to be repaired)
• Deleting missfont.map file
• Deleting fonts down to the bare essentials
• Starting Flash in Safe Mode
• Starting Flash on a different user account
Other considerations:
• My hard drive has become corrupted 3 or 4 times and I have re-installed Flash many times - perhaps a hidden registration limit mechanism?
• My desktop and laptop are networked with mounted network drives and I often sync files between them.
• The Initializing Fonts thing may be the wrong path to take here, when I load Flash on my laptop, Building Workspaces directly follows Initializing Fonts. Perhaps it could be an issue with Building Workspaces.
• It could also be anything to do with the whole First Run business, since I don't think it has run since it was re-installed the last time the hdd was corrupted.
The strangest thing of all of this is that I just got a new laptop a few months ago (before the problem with Flash developed), and everything on the laptop is basically an image of the desktop. And Flash works fine on the laptop, which runs all the same processes and has almost all the same programs installed.
Please let me know if you need any more information,
Ian
Issue: Approx 5 seconds after Flash MX Pro 2004 (and Flash 8 demo) splash screen hits "Initializing Fonts," Windows XP reports an error, Flash closes.
Seemingly pertinent:
• Alienware computer, XP Pro SP2 - all updates
• 1.25 GB RAM, 19.6 GB free disk space on main disk
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Pro (purchased full version upgraded to 7.2)
• Adobe Type Manager
• Just before Flash crashes, any open Explorer windows briefly seem to refresh, in that all the icons disappear and then reappear in an instant
What doesn't work:
• Installation
- Repair Installation
- Reinstallation
- Uninstall followed by complete wipe of all Macromedia files on the entire drive and removal of Macromedia reg values
- Doing it again but also involving registry deep-cleaning utilities.
- Brand new installation of Flash 8 demo has the same problem
• Removing Adobe Type Manager fonts
• Uninstalling Adobe Type Manager
• Repairing fonts with Font Xpress (nothing needs to be repaired)
• Deleting missfont.map file
• Deleting fonts down to the bare essentials
• Starting Flash in Safe Mode
• Starting Flash on a different user account
Other considerations:
• My hard drive has become corrupted 3 or 4 times and I have re-installed Flash many times - perhaps a hidden registration limit mechanism?
• My desktop and laptop are networked with mounted network drives and I often sync files between them.
• The Initializing Fonts thing may be the wrong path to take here, when I load Flash on my laptop, Building Workspaces directly follows Initializing Fonts. Perhaps it could be an issue with Building Workspaces.
• It could also be anything to do with the whole First Run business, since I don't think it has run since it was re-installed the last time the hdd was corrupted.
The strangest thing of all of this is that I just got a new laptop a few months ago (before the problem with Flash developed), and everything on the laptop is basically an image of the desktop. And Flash works fine on the laptop, which runs all the same processes and has almost all the same programs installed.
Please let me know if you need any more information,
Ian