Open up Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Freezes up when I try opening or making something new

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Roddy_Harrison
May 16, 2004
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Ive been using Adobe Photoshop for quite some time now. It has been a little buggy here and there so I figured this was just another one of those times. Since last week, Ive had the same problem: I cannot do anything in the program! I will open up Adobe Photoshop perfectly fine. It will look fine until I try to click anything from the File, Edit, Image, Layer, etc. menus. If I click on "New", the program will just not respond anymore and will freeze up.

I am using a Windows 98.
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dave_milbut
May 16, 2004
probably have the file> new dialog off screen. try this:

Robert Levine "Dialog box is missing??" 2/14/04 6:41pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/0>

and if that doesn’t work, try this:

Mathias Vejerslev "How to delete/reset Photoshop preferences" 2/11/03 1:04pm </cgi-bin/webx?50>
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Roddy_Harrison
May 16, 2004
Nope, I am not sure what the first one is asking me to do really, because I searched Windows, and couldnt find the Workspace folder anywhere. Also, I reset my prefs and that didnt work. Any other solutions?
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LenHewitt
May 16, 2004
Roddy,

It sounds as though you are looking at the Documents and Settings folder under ‘ALL USERS’ rather than the one under your (login) username.

You also need to have Windows Explorer options set to "View Hidden Files and Folders"
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Roddy_Harrison
May 19, 2004
I am using Windows 98. We only have 1 User.
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dave_milbut
May 19, 2004
I think in windows 98 it’d be under windows\application data… you still need to be able to view hidden files.
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adnanriaz
May 21, 2004
I am using Photoshop 7.0 on Windows XP pro. Photoshop freezes up while working with the layers. If I dont use any layer it works fine means editing pics. and stuff… I re-formatted my hard drive and installed everything again but the problems remains the same… Anyone can help, highly appreciated…
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Chris_Cox
May 21, 2004
Does just Photoshop lock up, or does the whole machine lock up (so that cntl-alt-del doesn’t work)?
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adnanriaz
May 22, 2004
The Whole system freeze’s up… I have to turn it off and than turn it on back again…
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Chris_Cox
May 25, 2004
Then you need to read the FAQ, and replace the bad hardware.
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tim_mazurek
Aug 19, 2004
Everytime i load photoshop in startup it freezes. Why?
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dave_milbut
Aug 19, 2004
we don’t know. please start a new topic and give us all the info you can after reading this:

LenHewitt "How To Get Help Quickly" 8/14/04 2:58am </cgi-bin/webx?50>

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