Re: HELP@from anyone who can.

In article <1155498935.383184.327500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nancycordaro@xxxxxxxxx says...

I'm going to jump right on your suggestions and get on Adobe's sight
immediately since in addition to taking 30 minutes to load, once I'm
on, it feels like I'm working at the speed of my first 8088 computer
about 20 years ago. Usually it starts loading for about ten minutes
than I'l get a message that it cannot finish because some file is
missing (since my reinstall there have been several, not the same one
each time, the latest was OXX...?.dll (the..?? are mine) I'll hit ok
and it continues to struggle to load. for another 15-20 minutes.

I hate to keep bugging you, but how do I know if I have a bad
font--anyway to isolate it? I know I have way too many on my machine
and started to get rid to them but haven't completed that task...found
that it wouldn't let me delete some, even though they didn't come with
Windows.

There are several utilities that will verify your fonts. I do not have a link
handy, to any of them. Seems that Mike Russell posted one, or more, not too
long ago. I'd go to www.tucows.com and Search for "font verification," and
variations on that search criterium. A bad font (or more), will likely show up
as a VERY slow load, or hang, while the Splashscreen shows, "loading fonts."


To answer you question about Photo pos pro, I surely don't need it and
only downloaded it to get the _ISource22.dll file from it. It just
seems to be a basic photo retouch program, but quite frankly I haven't
explored it.

Since that .dll isn't causing a hang right now, you might copy that program to
a safe space on your HDD, then use Control Panel>Add Remove Programs, to
remove Photo Pos Pro. You will have the files elsewhere, so you could copy
them over, if necessary.

And here is a REAL brain teaser for you....which I though by uninstall
would solve. My tool pointers (just in Photoshop have all turned into
"doubles"--two tiny crop tools side by side, two tiny paintbuckets,
eyedroppers....everything. While it seems like a minor annoyance you
cannot believe how often I've dragged a layer to make a duplicate and
it winds up in the trash, or the wrong color is selected. I have put
that one on the Adobe forum but now one knows what the heck I'm talking
about....they probably think I have double vision. When I did my
reinstall I reset my preferences so I thought that might solve it, but
if you have any ideas it would be great!

Wow, this sounds more like a problem outside of PS. Is PS the only program
with this behavoir? What are your cursor preferences Edit>Preferences>Cursors?
Have you tried changing these to say, Precise? Does it still happen? How about
mouse drivers? Head to your mouse/pointer Web site and get the latest drivers
and see what happens. You might also attempt to remove the device (mouse,
tablet, whatever) from you System>Device Manager, reboot, and see if XP finds
them, and installs the necessary drivers. Make copies of all of your device
drivers in a safe spot (a directory off of C:\, using DOS naming conventions.
Something like C:\Drivers would work. Write this down. Also have your XP
keyboard commands handy, as you might not have a mouse and need them to
navigate for a moment - scarry, if one is used to having a mouse at all times.

Have you checked your memory? Are the sticks seated properly and the contacts
clean? When you boot the computer, watch the RAM check in the POST. (You may
have to set POST to display via the BIOS function, as many assemblers turn
this off, so the user doesn't see the POST.)

Last thought - What is you I/O chain? Do you have SCSI HDDs, SATA, EIDE, etc.?
What type of I/O controller do you have? PCI, PCI-E, on-board EIDE, stand-
alone EIDE? This sounds like a hardware problem (after you eliminate driver
issues).

I'd also look into doing a System Backup, of EVERYTHING, REG, OS, programs,
and especially your data files. You might then want to do a System Restore,
going back to an earlier System State. Win NT & 2K had what was known as Last
Known Good (System State in Restore), but I do not know how it might be termed
in XP, though I've got versions of XP on several machines. Just have not had
to poke around System Restore in any of these. That name might still be used.
Hunt wrote:
In article <1155397133.102123.27540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nancycordaro@xxxxxxxxx says...
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Good luck,
Hunt

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