Problem opening Photoshop 5.0........

[Starglo]

I have been running Photoshop 5.02 for about 4 years and suddenly, when I try to open it, a message says 'Not Enough Memory (Ram) to launch Photoshop'.
I have tried shutting down all programs except Explorer and Systray...I have uninstalled and re-installed 3 or 4 times...I have defragged and used Scandisk...I have cleaned out all Temp files...I have also changed the virtual memory settings all to no avail...still getting same message...
I have a P4 with 1.7 ghz cpu, 256mgs ram and am using Windows98SE.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get this old friend up and running again??

 

[Starglo]

My mistake....I actually have 512mgs of ram..

 

[shellac]

You probably already checked this, but is there enough free space on the disk, or the scratch disk if that's a different drive?

 

[Starglo]

Yes...50gigs on drive C about 35 gigs free...but what is a scratch disk??

 

[mscallisto]

Do you have a pagefile?

I seem to remember that message popped up when someone removed their pagefile.

Just a thought.

 

[Starglo]

I can't open the program to check anything...All I have is thr directory in Program Files....I seem to remember when I tried a new defragger, 'Defragmenter Pro', it supposedly removed a pagefile...it was right after that when my problem appeared...
How can I check or replace a pagefile?

 

[Starglo]

Okay, I found out that 'pagefile' and 'swapfile' are the same......my virtual memory has 'Let Windows manage....' minimum is 0 and the high end says 'no maximum'

 

[mscallisto]

Well it sounds like it may be a pagefile(swapfile) problem.

This site explains pagefile setup much better than I can.

http://you_know_who.home.att.net/tips/swapfile.htm

 

[Starglo]

Thanks mcallisto!! I'll read that page 5 or 6 times before I attempt anything....I still think that using Defragmenter Pro one time was what did me in...here's what it does:

Defragmenter Pro Plus will:

1. Clean up hard disk.
2. Remove the pagefile (swapfile).
3. Disable running applications.
4. Run Windows/DOS Scandisk.
5. Run Windows/DOS defrag disk.
6. Set the pagefile (swapfile).
7. Enable running applications.
8. Shutdown/Restart Windows.

I really don't think that any program should NOT have any influence with your swapfile.

 

[DAVECA]

Hi...I have also downloaded and ran Defrag pro with the same result.I have illustrator up and running fine but when I want to run photoshop the system says not enough ram memory to run photoshop and yet in the same folder Image Ready runs fine...I wonder if illustrator has some files which can be copied over to the photoshop folder to solve the problem...daveca

 

[mscallisto]

Did PhotoShop run in the past or has it always had this problem?

What else can you tell us to help figure out the problem? What version PS, how much memory, when last reboot etc.

 

[DAVECA]

Sorry for the late reply...I have decided the problem might only be fixed with a full format and re-installing everything from scratch...I also have the fortune to have Paint Shop Pro and it runs great even if Photoshop can not even start...

The system is Windows 98 se (what they had at school)...

PhotoShop ran great all the time no problems at all with anything (I do set (at installation time) scratch disk settings for my PS and Illustrator)...

Ram is 512 mb...With Win98 reboots are performed on a daily basis just to clear out space in memory but even when I re-installed Win98 over the program just to firm up the Operating system PS ran fine...As for memory I ran "mem" in dos and what numbers would I give you that would be usefull to you...Daveca