Photoshop 7.0 Quits While Measuring Memory

[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.

[Firebird]

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" <notyme36@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<2ccd190c.-1@webx.la2eafNXanI>...

> 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.