I’m not a particularly computer savvy person but normally I can fumble around until a problem is fixed, but that just doesn’t seem to be doing any good right now and I know when I’m beat.
Every time I try to open up Photoshop it gives me the message, “could not initialize Photoshop because there is not enough memory (RAM)”. I’ve cleaned up old programs that are cluttering my system, performed defragmenter and checked my system for any virus or threat, but to no avail. I don’t even know if anything I’ve tried is in the right direction, if I just need to buy and install more RAM or if something more sinister is causing the problem.
If anyone could give me some advise or a step in a productive direction I would be most grateful
7/26/06: More Questions
I tried freeing up any unnecessary programs for when the computer starts, downloaded and ran RAM XP Pro and neither has seemed to fix the problem. I did however figure out exactly how much RAM I have verses how much is free and it doesn’t seem right. According to XP Pro, and the Performance part of the task Manager *which I now know where that is* says that I have 760 MB and *at this moment* 425 MB of that is free *with everything running that would normally be running*.
So I guess my new questions are; can Photoshop really use over 425 MB RAM to open and run? Is there something else that could be causing this problem other then a lacking of RAM? And has anyone had this problem or one of a similar nature?
7/27/06: I'm not alone!
Faidrae, a friend *how ironic* is having the same problem.
7/27/06: All fixed
A friend sent me this sometime this morning and it worked....
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Try deleting the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Prefs.psp file found in C
biggrin ocuments and Settings<your admin profile>Application DataAdobePhotoshop7.0Adobe Photoshop 7.0 SettingsAdobe Photoshop 7.0 Prefs.psp, then try opening Photoshop again.
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to help me
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