Jose,
Does this only happen in Photoshop? Sounds like you could have a sticky F1 key.
I had that happen once. I believe I reset the prefs and it stopped. I believe it was Len that helped me out when mine did that.
~Em
I had a weird experience just once last spring in PS7. I had no idea what I did but my screen started flashing like a video game. All the swatches would light up like I had just won the jackpot in Vegas. It was totally wild but I was able to save, shut down normally and when I restarted, everything was fine. I didn’t even have to trash my prefs. Sounds like video card but it’s never happened since. Gremlins?
Neville
I once opened a book and the cover was resting on the Tab key. Because of the keyboard auto-repeat, all the palettes started blinking on and off like crazy!
i’ve had that problem. You can’t press any brushes or anything right? and evertime you click it goes to the html? I forgot how i fixed it but try puttin your resolution to max and closing any diologs
reboot. iirc this happened sometimes when win 9x/me ran low on resources.
What OS / Memory size ?
IF windows 95/98/ME then;
What happens is the OS runs out of resources and starts behaving badly. This happesn when there is like 7% resouces free left. To reduce this try closing all other programs…also tray icon programs.. eveything you can, Before you run Photoshop, Also a clean reboot should be done.
You can run resouce monitor, located in Accessories to monitor resource levels while using photoshop. It can run as a tray icon. When they get below 10%…be cautions.
This problem was why I was forced to use WINDOWS NT type OS…although I really wanted to use a NT type OS anyway to experience what was better about it.
You can actauly test this runnning out of resouces by loading hte resouce monitor. Then loading some Big apps e.g. Browsers, Photoshop, Kazzaa (thats a resource hog after a while of working…it also does not seem to give them back after closing)….and some more…. Your resouces become low..adn the whole OS starts being irresponsible.
