Photoshop 7.0 Quits While Measuring Memory

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Robert Blackwell
Aug 26, 2003
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I successfully installed the program, and when I click the icon to run it, the program window opens up, and the initialization process begins.

But it always stops at the point where it says Measuring Memory… and then the error message Unable to initialize Photoshop because of a program error. appears, and the program closes when I click Ok in the message box.

Any idea what could be causing this? I can run Image Ready without issue, just not Photoshop. I’ve tried the trick with resetting the Prefs file, and installing the Postscript printer driver to no avail.

I’m using Windows NT 4.0, with Service Pack 6, on an HP Vectra with a 1GHz Pentium III and 256MB of RAM.

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elee67
Aug 31, 2003
Took me over a week and I finally figured it out. Stupid Windows and Stupid Adobe…. Try the following :

1 – Hold down control-alt-shift and doubleclick/open up photoshop and delete your preferences. It may have become corrupted. This didnt’ fix my problem

2 – Hold down control-alt and doubleclick/open photoshop. When it gets to the scratch disks, choose a disk that has LOTS of space. I moved my temp folder to another drive and photoshop didn’t like it till I did this step. I found out accidentally by not holding shift and starting photoshop..

"Robert Blackwell" …
I successfully installed the program, and when I click the icon to run it, the program window opens up, and the initialization process begins.

But it always stops at the point where it says Measuring Memory… and then the error message Unable to initialize Photoshop because of a program error. appears, and the program closes when I click Ok in the message box.

Any idea what could be causing this? I can run Image Ready without issue, just not Photoshop. I’ve tried the trick with resetting the Prefs file, and installing the Postscript printer driver to no avail.

I’m using Windows NT 4.0, with Service Pack 6, on an HP Vectra with a 1GHz Pentium III and 256MB of RAM.

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