Running Photoshop under WinXP...

[-Fred-]

i'm not sure it really belongs here, but i figured since we photoshoppers hang here, i'd ask.

i recently switched to WinXP Pro, and of course made a copy of all the data i had on some CD-RWs. everything works fine, except for Photoshop. I keep on getting "illegal operation errors" every time i select something from a picture, and copy it to another. nothing works after, i have to exit the program and restart, only to get the same exact problem. Is it because the images i'm using are read only (meaning i copied the files from the CD to the hard drive) or is it because XP doesn't like Photoshop 6.0?

If that's normal, i think Win98 will come back on the computer. It's less stable, but it works better.

 

[TVRKing]

No probs this end, although I have Home instead of Pro.

 

[Shannon]

Alright - I'm guessing you downloaded Photoshop because you backed it up on to a CD-RW.

Did you copy the actual Photoshop file (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0 or wherever it was installed) or the download file?

If you copied the C:\... file you probably left a file out that is needed to run Photoshop sucessfully or, if you copied the download across the file was probably corrupted some how whilst putting it on to the CD-RW.

I don't know much about technical problems, this is just my theory.

 

[CloneHead]

I have Win XP pro.
And I run Photoshop 5.5 6.0 and 7.0 with no problems.

Maybe you should try to reinstall photoshop, PunkRock ??

 

[-Fred-]

already done that... seems to work better now, but it still keeps on crashing once in a while (which, i assume, is somewhat normal) I received a copied version from a friend, which included a few other Adobe programs as well.

 

[AltF8]

I have terrible problems with performance on my Athlon with Photoshop 6, but no crashes.

There is a 6.0.1 patch out for Photoshop, last I knew. Do you have that?

 

[KosmikFool]

I'm on XP Home with PhotoShop 7.0 and don't have any problems.

 

[-Fred-]

well go figure, it works pretty darn well now...

ahh, stupid computers.

 

[KosmikFool]

Lol.

 

[oosacker]

winxp pro is too slow on my comp...