Re: MS Photo Editor Hangs on start up

Open a command prompt, and try CHKDSK /R

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Peter Cheimets" <pcheimets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Oy5SlrbrFHA.3080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a very weird problem with MS Photo Editor. It hangs on start up. After a minute or so a picture will come up, but it still
>is not usable. When this happened, Adobe PhotoDeluxe home edition started to act up too, it hangs for about a minute, seems to time
>out, and then comes up and works fine. I removed PD, and replaced it with Photoshop Elements, but it does the same thing.
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> I upgraded Photo Editor from 3.0 to a later addition, still the same. This happened once before, and getting rid of temp files
> and some network places entires helped, but this time none of that works. Has anyone got some thoughts?
>
> (My machine is running XP fully patched, and updated. I'm not sure what happened around the time Photo Edito and Adobe stopped
> working)
>
> Thanks,
>
> peter
>
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