Photoshop stops loading at Multiprocessor support

I have had Photoshop V7 for a while now, but it has just now stopped loading past Multiprocessor support. I see that my chip is running at 100% trying to load it, but it will not get past the Multiprocessor support, which I don't need anyway.

Any way to disable this to make it get past it, or any other ideas what I can do to simply load the programme? There is the drastic option of getting a new computer that works quicker, but its a very expensive way of doing it....

Any help or suggestions greatfully received.
JK

Under: 'Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\Adobe Photoshop Only\Extensions' disable the "MultiProcessor Support.8BX" by renaming it with an underscore for the 'X' (in case that wasn't it).

Thanks for your reply, but my version simply says muliprocessor support only, not 8BX... ??

i'd try resetting the prefrences before disabling plugins. if that doesn't work give id's advice a whirl.

Mathias Vejerslev "How to delete/reset Photoshop preferences" 2/11/03 12:04pm </cgi-bin/webx?50>

Thanks for your reply, but my version simply says muliprocessor support only, not 8BX...

you probably don't have view extentions of known types turned on in windows explorer. do so before deleting/renaming anything, it's easy to get the wrong file if extentions aren't on.