In a fog - don't understand symptoms.

[Jim H.]

Windows XP SP3. I've had Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0 for years and it works just
fine for my purposes. All of a sudden, it wouldn't load; the initial window
would appear but the hourglass wouldn't go away (not responding showed in the
top bar).

So, says I, I'll just reload the software so I puts the CD into the drive
and the autorun window pops up but the "Install PhotoDeluxe" button is dead:
no response. Huh? Well, I'll just copy the CD contents into a folder on my
hard drive and run it from there. Same non-response. All other programs load
ok. Everything else I put into my CD drive work fine. Now, my PhotoDeluxe
won't run and the install software on the CD won't work either.

Do these symptoms make sense to anyone?

 

[Jim H.]

Maybe I should also say that this trouble started happening about the same
time I loaded SP3 but I'm not too quick to jump on that as a cause.

 

[DL]

Maybe its a question of Photodelux being discontinued in 2002 and as such
its not supported in sp3?
Acording to Adobe version 2.0 was for the mac

 

[Gerry]

Hi, Jim, I am using WinXP, SP3 and recently re-installed Adobe's Photoschop
2 without any problems.
Gerry

 

[Jim H.]

Well, I just don't know how to answer DL telling me that the Adobe
PhotoDeluxe 2.0 I have on my PC was made to run on the MAC. Go figure.

As to Gerry's comment: Gerry, that's PhotoDeluxe, not Photoschop (sic).

Now, are there any genuine MVP's out there that can help me out?

 

[Jerry Ed]

WinXP SP2.
PhotoDeluxe 2.0 reserves a fixed amount of contiguous virtual memory (page
file)
and I believe this amount is calculated by using a multiple of the installed
ram.

I have 1GB of installed ram.

When my page file was 1.5GB, it would hang.
When my page file was 3.0GB, it would run.

After installing WinXP SP3, still no problems.
(I heard that SP3 reduces virtual memory fragmentation,
so contiguous memory is not so hard to find.)

JE

 

[Jim H.]

JE, thanks but my page file is 4.0GB so it seems the problem lies somewhere
else.

 

[Bob I]

Maybe dumb question but, what if you reduce to 3 or so GB? Maybe the
size appears to be to big to this program?