"+++Bobby "O"+++" wrote in message
"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
"+++Bobby "O"+++" wrote in message I have far too many apps on my machine to take that chance. It would put me out of business for far too long. I’m using a Dell Latitude with 1GHz CPU and 512MB ram – Windows XP Pro, SP-2. Also, I just successfully installed CS2 on my wife’s PC. It also says 217.00MB. Right now, I’m running System File Checker – then I’ll try to reinstall. I’m convinced that there is just some small problem that can easily be fixed if the right person recognizes it. So, I don’t want to reformat (yet).
Will the problem PSD’s open on your wife’s PC?
Yes, ALL of psd’s open on her PC. Also, I updated to 9.0.1 and updated the Help files. Still the same problem. I also noticed that some of the line items in the Help tab are greyed out on my PC – but not on my wife’s PC. One of them is Update (or Updater).
So, the problem is local to your PC/configuration/installation. If a problem can easily be fixed it is usually easy to find,. You could have a rogue dll working with a faulty registry key accessing a dodgy memory address and writing to a bad sector on your hard drive that doesn’t get on with you AV prog when there’s an R in the month or when there’s a full moon.
Dell’s aren’t the best when it comes to doing a format/clean reinstall as the supplied mirror discs usually install all sorts of junk when reinstalling, but that is what I’d be doing now. Then I’d install PS and see if I could open the CS PSD’s, if I could, then I would install the AV prog and see if they still opened, then connect to the net to get all the Windows updates and see if they still opened. If not, then they disagree with one of the updates, if they do open, continue installing your apps and seeing if they open after each installation. Just had a thought, you haven’t got TweakUI installed have you? If so, you need to undo all the changes that it made and uninstall it.
Best of luck
MH
Best of luck