Crop tool lost adjustable proportions.

On one of my XP boxes a strange thing has happened to the crop tool.

Say I have a big image and I want to crop a 7 inch wide by a visually pleasing hight....

If I set the crop tool to 7 inches wide and leave the hight and res blank, I should be able to draw my crop to any proportion I wish (7x2, 7x7, 7x100), but it isn't working that way now.

On this box the hight is invisibly preset. Lately it is the same as the width so it only makes a square, but it used to make a very thin (7x1?) crop box.

Any guesses?

That bug was mentioned here couple months ago, and I could duplicate it in PS 7. Seems other poster had it in CS. Can't remember. Which version you have?

Best I remember, resetting prefs didn't work. But try that. Also try setting both width and height, make a crop. Then clear crop tool. Then put in just the width and see if it behaves.

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I have CS... (I must have edited that part out, ooops)

I read that thread from back in April, but it got so far off on a side street about resizing and pixels, that the original question got lost.

I never "saved" any crop settings as mentioned in that other post. I don't want to try to get it to screw up on my other boxes for fear of never getting it back to normal again :-p

I can't actually recall if it ever worked on that particular box. I tried setting, resetting and clearing the Prefs, but nothing helped. I haven't reinstalled CS yet. I may.