Photoshop CS2 Tryout fails – had suites CS2 Beta and CS1 before

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henrik2000
Apr 28, 2005
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Hi. The new Photoshop CS2 Tryout does not start on my PC (Win XP Pro SP1, all hotfixes). The program window frame is there, but filled with white only, i don’t see any splash screen, nothing much loading. Then i get the Win message: "Photoshop found a problem and has to be closed." When i click for details, there is this, among others: Exception Information
Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000
Record: 0x0….
This cannot be copy-pasted, and the announced log file appcompat.txt seems not to be there.
Did you have that too? I have about 500 fonts.

Now: i have the CS Suite installed, AND i had the CS2 Suite beta. When i first installed the Photoshop CS2 Tryout additionally to the CS2 beta in a different folder, i did not uninstall the beta. I could not install the tryout. – Then i only uninstalled Photoshop CS2 beta (keeping preferences). After that, the CS2 Tryout would install, but would not start, as described above. – Then i uninstalled the whole CS2 Suite Beta (removing preferences), uninstalled the Photoshop CS2 Tryout, re-installed it (rebooted between each step), but the same: The Tryout does not fully start, i only get a program frame filled white, then the "problem" message. It also didn’t help to disable Antivirus and Firewall.

Now the de-installation of CS2 suite beta (through Windows software settings) seems not complete:
– Photoshop CS2 beta still starts, but when it is completely there, a message says that name or serial are missing, and it closes. – ImageReady can completely be used (but cannot start Photoshop from there, i get the same abovementioned message.
– Bridge seems completely gone.

What can i do now to use the Photoshop CS2 Tryout? Any line in the registry to be deleted? You think i can re-install the beta at least? (I will have the full version later, maybe Photoshop only, maybe the standard suite.)

Any hints would be wonderful. Thanks!

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Henrik Meier
May 4, 2005
Hi. Thanks to all helpful posters again.

Finally i found what made Photoshop CS2 Tryout crash upon start: It was a small utility "Filebox Extender" in the old version 1.7 (helpful to find favorite or recently used folders from within "Save"- and "Open"-boxes).

I had Filebox Extender in Autostart. Once i remove it from memory, Photoshop CS2 Tryout comes up with no problem. Big problem, odd solution, but thanks again!

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