Clipart browsing crash

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The Magician
Apr 22, 2004
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I was trying to browse some clipart discs with an image viewing program called Firehand Ember, when
things started acting weird. After browsing one folder, and moving to another…I noticed that the thumbnails no longer showed up, and had "X’s" in their place. Then everything goes wonky…and
freezes up, etc., and I get an error message saying something about Windows subsystems failing or sonething like that. I go to system resources, and find out that they are unbelievably low. Said resources were critical and at 1%.
These were clipart discs that were copied, but seemed to work before. Why would my system resources drop down so critically low just from browsing clipart? Is this because they were from my buddy’s clipart discs that I cloned? (why would that have any bearing? Bad burn?)
Is it from browsing as thumbnails?
(too many to browse or too much work for the processor?) The files are .WMF’s
I don’t understand why this is happening, or how else you would browse clipart. (Please…if you have some "moral issues" about copying clipart discs…save your comments…I want
answers and help…not opinions thanks.)
Any ideas?
Thanks!
The Magician

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Gene Palmiter
Apr 22, 2004
Am currently trying out the new beta for Thumbs Plus. Was pleased to see a Ghost Script plug in for it…now I can browse and thumbnail my .eps clip art too.
Might want to check it out.

"The Magician" wrote in message
I was trying to browse some clipart discs with an image viewing program
called Firehand Ember, when
things started acting weird. After browsing one folder, and moving to
another…I noticed that the
thumbnails no longer showed up, and had "X’s" in their place. Then
everything goes wonky…and
freezes up, etc., and I get an error message saying something about
Windows subsystems failing or
sonething like that. I go to system resources, and find out that they are
unbelievably low.
Said resources were critical and at 1%.
These were clipart discs that were copied, but seemed to work before. Why would my system resources drop down so critically low just from
browsing clipart?
Is this because they were from my buddy’s clipart discs that I cloned? (why would that have any bearing? Bad burn?)
Is it from browsing as thumbnails?
(too many to browse or too much work for the processor?) The files are .WMF’s
I don’t understand why this is happening, or how else you would browse
clipart.
(Please…if you have some "moral issues" about copying clipart
discs…save your comments…I want
answers and help…not opinions thanks.)
Any ideas?
Thanks!
The Magician

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