Reset Preferences File

"Bobby77501" wrote in message

When I hold down Ctl>Alt>Shift while starting PS CS, I’m supposed to be asked if I want to delete the Preferences file. But I’m not asked the question.

1. Where can I find the preferences file so I can delete it manually?
2. The reason I want to do this is because the percentage in the lower

left

corner of the PS window doesn’t work. I key in a percentage different

from

what is showing and that percentage shows – but hitting Enter does not implement that new percenatge, Instead, it freezes the file I’m working

on.

Press Control-Alt-Shift immediately *after* you start launching Photoshop. You’ll be asked if you want to delete the "Adobe Photoshop Settings File." This will, however, dump *all* settings, including a buggy prefs file.

If you just want to dump the prefs: (using My Computer) go C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\8.0\Adobe Photoshop CS Settings\Adobe Photoshop CS Prefs.psp.

FWIW, dumping the prefs file should be considered a monthly housekeeping chore.

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Flycaster wrote:

FWIW, dumping the prefs file should be considered a monthly housekeeping chore.

What do you you ‘lose’ when you delete the preferences? Does it take much to recreate your ideal layout and settings?

JP

"JP White" wrote in message

Flycaster wrote:

FWIW, dumping the prefs file should be considered a monthly housekeeping chore.

What do you you ‘lose’ when you delete the preferences? Does it take much to recreate your ideal layout and settings?

This explains it better than I can (at least in a reasonable amount of time): http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17478.html?origin=s tory

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I am pressing Ctl>Alt>Shift immediately after I start to launch Photoshop. I’ve tried just pressing and releasing right after I start – and holding it down until PS is fully loaded . I never get the request asking if I want to delete the "Adobe PhotoshopSettings File." But I do get the window asking me where I want my scratch disk.

"Flycaster" wrote in message

"Bobby77501" wrote in message

When I hold down Ctl>Alt>Shift while starting PS CS, I’m supposed to be asked if I want to delete the Preferences file. But I’m not asked the question.

1. Where can I find the preferences file so I can delete it manually?
2. The reason I want to do this is because the percentage in the lower

left

corner of the PS window doesn’t work. I key in a percentage different

from

what is showing and that percentage shows – but hitting Enter does not implement that new percenatge, Instead, it freezes the file I’m working

on.

Press Control-Alt-Shift immediately *after* you start launching

Photoshop.

You’ll be asked if you want to delete the "Adobe Photoshop Settings File." This will, however, dump *all* settings, including a buggy prefs file.
If you just want to dump the prefs: (using My Computer) go C:\Documents

and

Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\8.0\Adobe Photoshop

CS

Settings\Adobe Photoshop CS Prefs.psp.

FWIW, dumping the prefs file should be considered a monthly housekeeping chore.

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"Bobby77501" wrote in message

I am pressing Ctl>Alt>Shift immediately after I start to launch Photoshop. I’ve tried just pressing and releasing right after I start – and holding

it

down until PS is fully loaded . I never get the request asking if I want

to

delete the "Adobe PhotoshopSettings File." But I do get the window asking me where I want my scratch disk.

Then delete it manually, per the instructions given for XP. If the prefs reset does not solve your problems, then another uninstall/reload would be in order. If you’re keeping 7.1 on your system, just let CS install where it wants to this time.

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Thanks – but "been there, done that." I probably should find out how to completely uninstall all of my Photoshop apps – then just reinstall CS. Would you know how to do this – including the registry entries?

Thanks…….

"Flycaster" wrote in message

"Bobby77501" wrote in message

I am pressing Ctl>Alt>Shift immediately after I start to launch

Photoshop.

I’ve tried just pressing and releasing right after I start – and holding

it

down until PS is fully loaded . I never get the request asking if I

want

to

delete the "Adobe PhotoshopSettings File." But I do get the window

asking

me where I want my scratch disk.

Then delete it manually, per the instructions given for XP. If the prefs reset does not solve your problems, then another uninstall/reload would be in order. If you’re keeping 7.1 on your system, just let CS install where it wants to this time.

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Bobby77501 wrote:

When I hold down Ctl>Alt>Shift while starting PS CS, I’m supposed to be asked if I want to delete the Preferences file. But I’m not asked the question.

1. Where can I find the preferences file so I can delete it manually?

On Win NT-style systems it’s somewhere under
C:\…\YourUsername\…\adobe\photoshop

2. The reason I want to do this is because the percentage in the lower left corner of the PS window doesn’t work. I key in a percentage different from what is showing and that percentage shows – but hitting Enter does not implement that new percenatge, Instead, it freezes the file I’m working on.

Well, it shouldn’t freeze, but anyway I have probably never used that control for zooming in/out.

Instead, use [Ctrl] and [+] or [Ctrl] and [-].

Add [Alt] to either do or do not resize the image window along with the image while zooming.

BTW there is a ‘Navigator’ palette with a slider, too.

Fred

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Flycaster wrote:

"JP White" wrote in message

Flycaster wrote:

FWIW, dumping the prefs file should be considered a monthly housekeeping chore.

What do you you ‘lose’ when you delete the preferences? Does it take much to recreate your ideal layout and settings?

This explains it better than I can (at least in a reasonable amount of time): http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17478.html?origin=s tory

That’s a great link, thanks very much, it’s bookmarked!!

JP

"Bobby77501" wrote in message

Thanks – but "been there, done that." I probably should find out how to completely uninstall all of my Photoshop apps – then just reinstall CS. Would you know how to do this – including the registry entries?

Frankly, the only sane way to deal with a buggered registry is to back up your data files to a CD or other off-computer backup device, wipe the disk, and do a CLEAN reinstall of XP and your apps. If you have a bunch of crap software in that box, you’ll be amazed at how much faster everything works with a clean re-install.

OTOH, if you just want to do a clean reload of CS, just uninstall all interations of PS, and do a re-install. If that does not work, I’d recommend the more thorough approach suggested above.

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