Re: HELP@from anyone who can. In article <1155498935.383184.327500@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, nancycordaro@gmail.com says... There are several utilities that will verify your fonts. I do not have a link handy, to any of them. Seems that Mike Russell posted one, or more, not too long ago. I'd go to www.tucows.com and Search for "font verification," and variations on that search criterium. A bad font (or more), will likely show up as a VERY slow load, or hang, while the Splashscreen shows, "loading fonts." Since that .dll isn't causing a hang right now, you might copy that program to a safe space on your HDD, then use Control Panel>Add Remove Programs, to remove Photo Pos Pro. You will have the files elsewhere, so you could copy them over, if necessary. Wow, this sounds more like a problem outside of PS. Is PS the only program with this behavoir? What are your cursor preferences Edit>Preferences>Cursors? Have you tried changing these to say, Precise? Does it still happen? How about mouse drivers? Head to your mouse/pointer Web site and get the latest drivers and see what happens. You might also attempt to remove the device (mouse, tablet, whatever) from you System>Device Manager, reboot, and see if XP finds them, and installs the necessary drivers. Make copies of all of your device drivers in a safe spot (a directory off of C:, using DOS naming conventions. Something like C:Drivers would work. Write this down. Also have your XP keyboard commands handy, as you might not have a mouse and need them to navigate for a moment - scarry, if one is used to having a mouse at all times. Have you checked your memory? Are the sticks seated properly and the contacts clean? When you boot the computer, watch the RAM check in the POST. (You may have to set POST to display via the BIOS function, as many assemblers turn this off, so the user doesn't see the POST.) Last thought - What is you I/O chain? Do you have SCSI HDDs, SATA, EIDE, etc.? What type of I/O controller do you have? PCI, PCI-E, on-board EIDE, stand- alone EIDE? This sounds like a hardware problem (after you eliminate driver issues). I'd also look into doing a System Backup, of EVERYTHING, REG, OS, programs, and especially your data files. You might then want to do a System Restore, going back to an earlier System State. Win NT & 2K had what was known as Last Known Good (System State in Restore), but I do not know how it might be termed in XP, though I've got versions of XP on several machines. Just have not had to poke around System Restore in any of these. That name might still be used. [SNIP] Good luck, Hunt Noone@hunt.com (Hunt)
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