Problem opening Photoshop 7.0 in Windows XP

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cspear
Mar 4, 2005
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I am having a problem opening Photoshop in XP Pro. I click on the icon, the application starts to load but cuts out when it just about completes loading. I tried reinstalling but it did not seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Chip Spear
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Marcel
Mar 4, 2005
Have you Sp2 installed?
Marcel

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I am having a problem opening Photoshop in XP Pro. I click on the icon, the application starts to load but cuts out when it just about completes loading. I tried reinstalling but it did not seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Chip Spear
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cspear
Mar 5, 2005
Yes, SP2 is installed. I notice that the program dies when it hits "loading color pref". I can’t find a prefs.psp file on my c: drive either.
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Marcel
Mar 5, 2005
Uninstall SP2. No guarantee it will work then, but chances are it will. I had to do the same on my computer and my wife’s.
That darn SP2 will even intervene when Photoshop works and you want to use the help file.
Marcel

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Yes, SP2 is installed. I notice that the program dies when it hits "loading color pref". I can’t find a prefs.psp file on my c: drive either.
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neon
Mar 5, 2005
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Yes, SP2 is installed. I notice that the program dies when it hits "loading color pref". I can’t find a prefs.psp file on my c: drive either.
try looking in c:\documents and settings\??????\application data\adobe\photoshop\7.0\adobe photoshop 7.0 settings
there should be a bunch of .psp files in that folder. if there aren’t you’ve got a screwed up installation.
and yes…sp2 is notorious for causing all kinds of problems.
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Larry
Mar 8, 2005
Check google groups.
This seems to be a common error, and only requires deleting the pref files. Or resetting the prefs with a key combo before PS cuts out (in the loading process)
Can’t remember the combo though.

wrote in message
I am having a problem opening Photoshop in XP Pro. I click on the icon, the application starts to load but cuts out when it just about completes loading. I tried reinstalling but it did not seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Chip Spear
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goodidea1950SPAM-SPAM
Mar 10, 2005
I had the same problem, not exactly, Photoshop would just disappear when it was loaded with Illustrator, but I was using Photoshop 6. I changed something and the problem went away. I can’t remember what though. I’m a big help. It might have been uninstalling the programs that I didn’t use anymore, especially with codecs, and then I disabled everything that I could in msconfig, and did some detective work, at least that sounds like what I would do. Good luck. My problem was interesting in that PS would run fine unless Illy was up.

"Marcel" wrote in message
: Uninstall SP2. No guarantee it will work then, but chances are it will. I : had to do the same on my computer and my wife’s.
: That darn SP2 will even intervene when Photoshop works and you want to use : the help file.
: Marcel
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: wrote in message
: : > Yes, SP2 is installed. I notice that the program dies when it hits : > "loading color pref". I can’t find a prefs.psp file on my c: drive : > either.
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