Photoshop 7 quits at startup

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Adam_Turner
Feb 3, 2004
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Hello. Recently, whenever I try to run Photoshop, it starts up normally at first but then it gives me an error message that states: "photoshop could not initialize because there is not enough memory(RAM)". I have 256 megs of RAM and was using photoshop problem-free up until a few days ago. I have photoshop 7 and am running Windows XP if it helps at all. Can anyone give me some advice on this problem? Thanks.
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YrbkMgr
Feb 3, 2004
Try resetting your preferences per the procedure in the faq.

Peace,
Tony
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Adam_Turner
Feb 3, 2004
Please forgive my ignorance, but how or where might I access such a thing?
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LenHewitt
Feb 3, 2004
Adam,

There is a link to the FAQ sub-forum at the top of this forum’s Topic List
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Adam_Turner
Feb 3, 2004
I couldn’t find a topic that specifically pertained to my problem. Anyone else encountered this error before in this circumstance?
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sandy_johnson
Feb 3, 2004
Hold down shift+control+alt while launching Photoshop and the prefs will be reset.
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dave_milbut
Feb 3, 2004
Hold down shift+control+alt while launching Photoshop and the prefs will be reset.

…. after you see a dialog asking you if it’s ok to reset your ps settings. if you don’t see and say yes to the dialog, the prefs are not reset.
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sandy_johnson
Feb 3, 2004
Thanks for clarifying that for the illiterate. 🙂
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dave_milbut
Feb 3, 2004
<Ralph Wiggums>"What? Me fail English? That’s unpossible!!!"</RW>
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stan
Feb 3, 2004
:

Hello. Recently, whenever I try to run Photoshop, it starts up normally at first but then it gives me an error message that states: "photoshop could not initialize because there is not enough memory(RAM)". I have 256 megs of RAM and was using photoshop problem-free up until a few days ago. I have photoshop 7 and am running Windows XP if it helps at all. Can anyone give me some advice on this problem? Thanks.

Might be worth checking for a clash with your anti-virus program, if installed. Especially Kaspersky .. I had a lot of Photoshop glitches until I got rid of it
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Adam_Turner
Feb 3, 2004
Thanks guys, it worked!
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dave_milbut
Feb 3, 2004
<Monty Burns>Eeeeexcellent</MB> 🙂
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tikob
Aug 1, 2004
thank u sooooooooooo much for the help….it works!!!! damn i spent hours doing all these things to my comp and all it took was to hold on alt ctrl and shift. thanks again for clarify the "resetting prefs".
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dave_milbut
Aug 1, 2004
you’re welcome ticob. 🙂

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