"Photoshop needs to close" error on first time start (after install)

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magmike
Dec 4, 2005
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After installing Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (brand new, not an upgrade) and starting the program, I can never get the program to start. It just brings up a box that says the following:

Adove Photoshop CS2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this…blah, blah.

I hit the debug button, but the box just goes away. I have activated and this is a legitimate copy. Any ideas of what is going on here? I searched the program directory for a faq file and didn’t find anything. Any ideas?

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magmike
Dec 5, 2005
I think I figured it out. For a completely other reason, I had closed out all of the programs running in the task bar next to the clock. For some reason, I had clicked on a PSD file and it opened! I recreated the scenario, but restarting the computer to get all of these programs running again. Then I clicked the file again. Same error – had to close. Then I closed out all of these programs again, and Photoshop opened. Not sure yet if this is a resource error, or a conflict with one of these programs, but that will be easy to find out.

Mike

"magmike @netterweb.com>" <mike.kline<hates-spam-so-remove-this> wrote in message
After installing Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (brand new, not an upgrade) and starting the program, I can never get the program to start. It just brings up a box that says the following:

Adove Photoshop CS2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this…blah, blah.

I hit the debug button, but the box just goes away. I have activated and this is a legitimate copy. Any ideas of what is going on here? I searched the program directory for a faq file and didn’t find anything. Any ideas?
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neon
Dec 5, 2005
magmike <mike.kline wrote:

I think I figured it out. For a completely other reason, I had closed out all of the programs running in the task bar next to the clock. For some reason, I had clicked on a PSD file and it opened! I recreated the scenario, but restarting the computer to get all of these programs running again. Then I clicked the file again. Same error – had to close. Then I closed out all of these programs again, and Photoshop opened. Not sure yet if this is a resource error, or a conflict with one of these programs, but that will be easy to find out.

Mike

"magmike @netterweb.com>" <mike.kline<hates-spam-so-remove-this> wrote in message
After installing Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (brand new, not an upgrade) and starting the program, I can never get the program to start. It just brings up a box that says the following:

Adove Photoshop CS2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this…blah, blah.

I hit the debug button, but the box just goes away. I have activated and this is a legitimate copy. Any ideas of what is going on here? I searched the program directory for a faq file and didn’t find anything. Any ideas?
trash your preferences file.
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magmike
Dec 5, 2005
what does this do?
"neon" wrote in message
magmike <mike.kline wrote:

I think I figured it out. For a completely other reason, I had closed out all of the programs running in the task bar next to the clock. For some reason, I had clicked on a PSD file and it opened! I recreated the scenario, but restarting the computer to get all of these programs running again. Then I clicked the file again. Same error – had to close. Then I closed out all of these programs again, and Photoshop opened. Not sure yet if this is a resource error, or a conflict with one of these programs, but that will be easy to find out.

Mike

"magmike @netterweb.com>" <mike.kline<hates-spam-so-remove-this> wrote in message
After installing Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (brand new, not an upgrade) and starting the program, I can never get the program to start. It just brings up a box that says the following:

Adove Photoshop CS2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this…blah, blah.

I hit the debug button, but the box just goes away. I have activated and this is a legitimate copy. Any ideas of what is going on here? I searched the program directory for a faq file and didn’t find anything. Any ideas?
trash your preferences file.
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Marek Goworek
Dec 6, 2005
Hej!
Czy m
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magmike
Dec 7, 2005
What language is that? What does it say?

Mike
(just a stupid, unworldly american guy)
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"Marek Goworek" wrote in message
Hej!
Czy m
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Frankk Johnsonn
Dec 11, 2005
magmike wrote:

what does this do?
"neon" wrote in message
magmike <mike.kline wrote:

I think I figured it out. For a completely other reason, I had closed out all of the programs running in the task bar next to the clock. For some reason, I had clicked on a PSD file and it opened! I recreated the scenario, but restarting the computer to get all of these programs running again. Then I clicked the file again. Same error – had to close. Then I closed out all of these programs again, and Photoshop opened. Not sure yet if this is a resource error, or a conflict with one of these programs, but that will be easy to find out.

Mike

"magmike @netterweb.com>" <mike.kline<hates-spam-so-remove-this> wrote in message
After installing Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (brand new, not an upgrade) and starting the program, I can never get the program to start. It just brings up a box that says the following:

Adove Photoshop CS2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this…blah, blah.

I hit the debug button, but the box just goes away. I have activated and this is a legitimate copy. Any ideas of what is going on here? I searched the program directory for a faq file and didn’t find anything. Any ideas?
trash your preferences file.
Just resets everything back to the defaults if you changed any settings they will need to be changed again. Photoshop will recreate this file on startup.

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