Photoshop Crash in XP

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

Stephan wrote:

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

I am really surprised you say that, Stephan. I have been using XP since its inception and I have found it to be incredibly reliable. Believe me, I am on my computer about 10 hours a day on average. Since I installed SP2 it has run even better! I have never had to reboot in the 3+ yrs I have used XP. I reformat and reinstall my hardrive every 12 months for the hell of it, and I NEVER have a problem. I guess time will tell with PS, but no probs at all so far.

Brian.

Thanks Stephan! That did it. I’d reinstalled PS, to no avail. I’ll send you a cookie (if your browser accepts them).
Jeremy

"Stephan" wrote in message

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

Count yourself lucky, or at least more vigilant against issues that plague other XP users.

"Brian" wrote in message

Stephan wrote:

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

I am really surprised you say that, Stephan. I have been using XP since its inception and I have found it to be incredibly reliable. Believe me, I am on my computer about 10 hours a day on average. Since I installed SP2 it has run even better! I have never had to reboot in the 3+ yrs I have used XP. I reformat and reinstall my hardrive every 12 months for the hell of it, and I NEVER have a problem. I guess time will tell with PS, but no probs at all so far.

Brian.

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MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

So far, I must be lucky, as I have XP/SP-1 on one machine, and W2K on the workstation with no PS issues. The closest that I come, is if I get too anxious to start something, and hit File>Open, before the last little hourglass has flashed on screen. All loads and comes up, then there are two very quick flashes of the hg, and if I do not wait those 2-3 seconds, I can get a bit of a hang. All other PSs were "good to go" the instant that the desktop came up. Now I have learned to pause for just one breath, before I start. Also, the hang usually cleared itself in a few moments, but this added even more time, and I had gotten myself into this situation by being impatient in the first place. Now I wait for the screen, and say, "one-mississippi, two -mississippi… " and then I am ready to go. I do not know what PS is doing in those few seconds, but it does NOT like to be disturbed, and this is on both machines – both OSs.

Hunt

PS MasterBlaster, glad you got it up and running!

Ah, yes, the old ‘one mississippi two mississippi’ technique. Ex-Mac user?

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MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up,
when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

So far, I must be lucky, as I have XP/SP-1 on one machine, and W2K on the workstation with no PS issues. The closest that I come, is if I get too anxious to start something, and hit File>Open, before the last little hourglass has flashed on screen. All loads and comes up, then there are two
very quick flashes of the hg, and if I do not wait those 2-3 seconds, I can
get a bit of a hang. All other PSs were "good to go" the instant that the desktop came up. Now I have learned to pause for just one breath, before I start. Also, the hang usually cleared itself in a few moments, but this added
even more time, and I had gotten myself into this situation by being impatient
in the first place. Now I wait for the screen, and say, "one-mississippi, two
-mississippi… " and then I am ready to go. I do not know what PS is doing in
those few seconds, but it does NOT like to be disturbed, and this is on both
machines – both OSs.

Hunt

PS MasterBlaster, glad you got it up and running!

Brian wrote:

I am really surprised you say that, Stephan. I have been using XP since its inception and I have found it to be incredibly reliable. Believe me, I am on my computer about 10 hours a day on average. Since I installed SP2 it has run even better! I have never had to reboot in the 3+ yrs I have used XP. I reformat and reinstall my hardrive every 12 months for the hell of it, and I NEVER have a problem.
I guess time will tell with
PS, but no probs at all so far.

Brian.

For starters it decided my video card was a Brand X when it is in fact a Brand Z, and you know how that goes: Do you want to find a better driver? locate it? aha, you found one…good… but we here at Microsoft decided the one we chose for you is much better, we are smart, you are dumb, the wrong driver will stay and that is it with that. Old Windows story.
I am not going to change the card because I don’t want to have to take a chance to have to deal with that activation crap.
Then it downloads all the update OK , installs them and tells you it could not install them.
But since it is the "family" machine, I am quite happy when it crashes because I don’t want the kids to spend too much time playing on neopets.com anyway.
Win2000 minus Outlook and Internet Explorer is OK for me

Stephan

Stephan wrote:

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

There’s omething wrong with your machine then. Maybe video drivers?

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Hunt wrote:

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MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

So far, I must be lucky, as I have XP/SP-1 on one machine, and W2K on the workstation with no PS issues. The closest that I come, is if I get too anxious to start something, and hit File>Open, before the last little hourglass has flashed on screen. All loads and comes up, then there are two very quick flashes of the hg, and if I do not wait those 2-3 seconds, I can get a bit of a hang. All other PSs were "good to go" the instant that the desktop came up. Now I have learned to pause for just one breath, before I start. Also, the hang usually cleared itself in a few moments, but this added even more time, and I had gotten myself into this situation by being impatient in the first place. Now I wait for the screen, and say, "one-mississippi, two -mississippi… " and then I am ready to go. I do not know what PS is doing in those few seconds, but it does NOT like to be disturbed, and this is on both machines – both OSs.

Hunt

PS MasterBlaster, glad you got it up and running!

???? Very strange. PS runs (and multitasks) perfectly. I can happily tell it to load, and DW and Illustrator all at the same time and they all load up inside 20 seconds. PS is the faster of them to load.

XP SP2

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SpaceGirl wrote:

Stephan wrote:

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

There’s omething wrong with your machine then. Maybe video drivers?

I agree with you Spacegirl, XP SP2 is terrific and never has a problem on either of my computers, even my old crappy one. Most reliable operating system I have ever used, and much nicer interface than 2000. 2000 annoyed me with its omission of MSCONFIG.

Brian.

Stephan wrote:

For starters it decided my video card was a Brand X when it is in fact a Brand Z, and you know how that goes: Do you want to find a better driver? locate it? aha, you found one…good… but we here at Microsoft decided the one we chose for you is much better, we are smart, you are dumb, the wrong driver will stay and that is it with that. Old Windows story.
I am not going to change the card because I don’t want to have to take a chance to have to deal with that activation crap.
Then it downloads all the update OK , installs them and tells you it could not install them.
But since it is the "family" machine, I am quite happy when it crashes because I don’t want the kids to spend too much time playing on neopets.com anyway.
Win2000 minus Outlook and Internet Explorer is OK for me
Stephan

I forgot: since last week it decided that Stand By = Bye bye. No way to fix it so far.

Stephan

I agree with you Spacegirl, XP SP2 is terrific and never has a problem on either of my computers, even my old crappy one. Most reliable operating system I have ever used, and much nicer interface than 2000. 2000 annoyed me with its omission of MSCONFIG.

Brian.

msconfig is essentially a stand alone program and can be downloaded from http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html and many other places. It’s very useful to have a ‘spare’ copy of this as the original can be goosed by many spyware installations

B

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Ah, yes, the old ‘one mississippi two mississippi’ technique. Ex-Mac user?

[SNIP]

No, only PC for many, many moons. Heck, I didn’t even know that MAC users needed to count, waiting for a program to open – thought it was only us WIN folk. Same boxes and same OSs bring up other PS versions much more quickly, even with the same, or nearly same, plug-ins, fonts, etc. It took me a few re -launches to realize that CS, on XP & W2K wants me to be patient. It’s not for very long, but there is a pause, with 2 flashes of the hg, after the screen has otherwise come up. I have learned to wait, and now include it into my working scheme, even with programs that are "good to go," as soon as the screen appears. No biggie, I just wonder what those 2 secs allow CS to do. Oh well, one-miss. etc. <G>

Hunt

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:56:22 GMT, Stephan wrote:

Stephan wrote:

For starters it decided my video card was a Brand X when it is in fact a Brand Z, and you know how that goes: Do you want to find a better driver? locate it? aha, you found one…good… but we here at Microsoft decided the one we chose for you is much better, we are smart, you are dumb, the wrong driver will stay and that is it with that. Old Windows story.
I am not going to change the card because I don’t want to have to take a chance to have to deal with that activation crap.
Then it downloads all the update OK , installs them and tells you it could not install them.
But since it is the "family" machine, I am quite happy when it crashes because I don’t want the kids to spend too much time playing on neopets.com anyway.
Win2000 minus Outlook and Internet Explorer is OK for me
Stephan

I forgot: since last week it decided that Stand By = Bye bye. No way to fix it so far.

I would suggest that there is something seriously wrong if it won’t use the correct drivers etc. I’ve never had that sort of problem even when I was using NT (which was notoriously strict about drivers). And the situation with Stand By makes it even more likely.

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Hi Miranda,

I’ve had the same issue with PS on two machines, where it simply crashes during startup. Like Stephan, I’ve had major problems with XP crashing on multiple machines, all of them Dells, all of them more than six months old; my wife told me if I get another Dell, heads will roll. 😉 My latest is a Gateway, and I’ll use the Dell as a file server between the Macs and PCs.

See you in the bADGer lounge,
Jeremy

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Stephan wrote:

MasterBlasterRunBartertown wrote:

Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

Have you tried reseting your prefs when you launch PS
What was it again? ctrl+alt+shift pressed down as PS loads? Can somebody confirm this?

On he side: I have XP on one machine and it crashes so often it reminds me of WIN ME. I would never run PS on it.
Win 2000 is good enough and I can’t crash it.

Stephan

There’s omething wrong with your machine then. Maybe video drivers?
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# remove NO SPAM to email, or use form on website #

I spent an agonizing weekend trying to get it to run. Also Illustrator and Acrobat.

This last Monday I called Adobe. Turns out the Adobe tech had me go into my Documents and Settings, dennis, Local Settings, Temp folder and empty it. It had over 65,000 files in it.

Instantly all returned to normal.

Dennis

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Has anyone had issues with Photoshop crashing in WinXP? While starting up, when it gets to ‘Initializing Color Preferences’ it goes bye-bye.

TIA
J