PS 7 won't open

[theaviator]

I am using a sony laptop with windows 2000 OS. I have photoshop 7 and everything has worked well for the last year or so. UNTIL 48 hours ago. Now when I click on the PS 7 icon the photoshop program starts, all the plugins are found, personal settings are found and all the other bits appear to be loading, this takes the usuall amount of time as normal, just when you expect the main page of photoshop to open -- NOTHING ! The program disappears and the computer immediatley returns to my desktop. I have not loaded any new programs recently, but I have loaded some PS plugins about 2 weeks ago, it worked OK after this. The only thing I have done is insert a PCMCI IBM microdrive adapter and 1 GIG card into the one PCMCI SLOT. The computer found new hardware and then installed the software for it. The microdrive worked OK . I have tried re installing PS 7 , . Any ideas please, thank you in advance.

[YrbkMgr]

Try resetting your preferences per the procedure in the FAQ's. It's probably
become corrupted.

OT, but I just read about the micro drives... on the wish list.