i got a system error that forced me to close the process
i tried illustrator to see if the problem occured there too and the same error closed illustrator
the error occurs during the initialization process for photoshop before it even loads fonts and brushes
then today i had some time so i uninstalled my adobe products and attempted to reinstall
the install went flawlessly but the problem still occurs with photoshop and illustrator anyway
im using windows xp sp2 with all the latest updates as of 5/18/07 3pm
ive taken screenshots of the errors
http://www.pacificx....ur3l/error1.JPG
http://www.pacificx....ur3l/error2.JPG
http://www.pacificx....ur3l/error3.JPG
because it lists gdiplus.dll as the modname in the error signature, i downloaded a copy of gdiplus.dll from a site and placed it in both the windows/system32 and windows/system folders because i could not figure out the exact location
there werent any original gdiplus.dll files in either directory though so i believe i may be wrong
i also tried searching the windows folder for gdiplus.dll and it crashed explorer.exe so maybe my windows installation became corrupted
thanks for reading this long post and thanks in advance for the help =D
Edited by squr3l, 18 May 2007 - 05:13 PM.