Strange – program semi-frozen…

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Darrel_H
Jun 3, 2005
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Most unusual behavior I’m seeing here. I have an image up in PS7. It’s not a particularly large one, so I don’t think it’s a memory issue. But all of a sudden, I can’t do much of anything. It’s not completely frozen. That wouldn’t surprise me much. (Computers freeze and programs stop responding all the time for one reason or another.) Here’s what I CAN still do. I can open all the menus at the top, but with the exception of the View, Window, and Help menus, all the items are greyed out. (including "Save". Grrr.) I can zoom in and out, either with the keyboard shorcuts or by using Alt and Ctrl with the Hand tool. (I am permanently stuck on the hand tool, however. I can roll over the tool bar, and the buttons change graphics as I roll over them, but I can’t switch to any other tool. What I can’t do is much of anything else. Has anybody experienced this glitch before? Any ideas how to recover from it?

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Christine_Krof_Shock
Jun 3, 2005
Close Photoshop; Delete Preferences (Shift+Alt+Delete immediately after clicking on the Photoshop Icon on your desktop or from the Start menu)
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dave_milbut
Jun 3, 2005
right. sounds like a dialog is off screen.
DH
Darrel_H
Jun 6, 2005
right. sounds like a dialog is off screen.

Whew. Good call. A little Alt-Space, ‘M’ key to move the layer effects dialog back on screen… I recently had to switch one of my two monitors because it blew out. That’s probably what caused it. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that before. In retrospect, I’m pretty sure this has happened before and I was able to figure it out. Thanks for thawing out the old brain-cells…
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dave_milbut
Jun 7, 2005
cool darrel! glad to help!

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