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Post by Kiri on Oct 25, 2011 5:55:35 GMT
I have windows XP up to date, with Paint Shop Pro 7 which I bought back in 2000.
My Paint Shop Pro 7 keeps hanging. It's over 10 years old software, and it seems to be just in the last few weeks.
I thought it was to do with the cut and paste, but it seems to hang with layers as well - so no cutting and pasting - just selecting a different layer seems to hang it as well.
I haven't been able to find anywhere obvious to ask the question, so I'm wondering if you know anywhere I can ask.
Of course - the thought that is going through my head is that somethings changed in Windows XP that no longer does things the way it did 11 years ago, and that's why it isn't working.
I'm used to PSP7, it lets me do everything I like so I'm not keen to get new software if I don't have to.
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Post by CharlieChomper on Oct 27, 2011 23:05:47 GMT
I'm very sorry about the delay in responding --I had been coming home so late that I had been completely wiped out and too tired to get on my computer. I actually have that version of PSP installed and am still running XP (with all patches) and will take a look at it on my system when I get a chance. One thing that can be tried to is a reset or clear your cache in it to see if that might help (I believe the key combination is ctrl-alt). I am still looking into this, though...
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Post by Kiri on Oct 28, 2011 0:22:57 GMT
I should let you know that I have already uninstalled and reinstalled it to see if that would help. But it hasn't.
In your own time CC - I'm quite OK with the delay.
The other thing is that it's a 7.02 version so I'm thinking I should upgrade to 7.04 which was the last 04 version. I've found a 7.04 version at oldversion.com but haven't tried installing it yet.
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Post by CharlieChomper on Oct 28, 2011 4:23:08 GMT
I tried it out on my own system and had no issues with it. However, my version is patched to 7.04. You should be able to actually obtain the 7.04 patch through Corel (who bought out Jasc a number of years back and still puts out PSP). If that doesn't help, let me know! One more thing, albeit more obvious, that I forgot to ask you earlier was about your system resources--in particular, how "free" are they in relation to usage (for example, is there anything else you may have running in terms of processes and how much free RAM and swap ("virtual" memory) do you have to work with)? Also, does it only seem to be happening with things like copying/pasting and working with layers or any other tasks? Also, how large are the files? Or is this happening regardless of size? Edited again: I found this user forum devoted specifically to PSP and includes a section for version 7 that still appears to be fairly active. I hope it in some way helps!
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