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Friday, June 3, 2005 by Jafo | Discussion: Personal Computing
Lately, when dl clicking on a file...eg a jpg .... Paintshop Pro loads...but this error pops up. Then I dl click on the file again and it'll load.
This is using Explorer Plus....but Windows Explorer is the same.
I'm assuming I have a service stopped that cause the error....yet dl clicking on a doc file loads word just fine.
Any ideas?
Google didn't help as any refs to the error appear to be different issues or system-wide...
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Reply #22 Saturday, June 4, 2005 2:39 AM
Other recent Paint proggies...like paint.net ....that's about it...graphics-wise.
BTW...rebooted...and it reverted to settings as in the screenie....just has '&open' now instead of 'open'
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Reply #26 Saturday, June 4, 2005 2:54 AM
| Re-opening the association window and it's reverted to the shortened naming... |
....at least something is working.............
Reply #27 Saturday, June 4, 2005 9:52 AM
This reverting back to previous settings is 'odd'....my only theory left is that I'm only setting the associations in Explorer the file manager...Explorer the shell is not actually loaded.
Perhaps it's needed to make the changes 'stick'...
Reply #28 Sunday, June 5, 2005 11:56 AM
| Explorer the shell is not actually loaded. Perhaps it's needed to make the changes 'stick'... |
There's a good chance that it does need to be loaded...
Reply #29 Sunday, June 5, 2005 7:51 PM
| There's a good chance that it does need to be loaded... |
Meowy .... you 'could' defer to my longer experience with shell alternatives....this is the eighth year ....and the FIRST time I've struck this error...yet have installed and run LS on every WinOS since '95 and have used PSP on all them from v3 to my current [6] and it was just fine even on this OS install....which has run error-free for over a year.
I've installed MOST apps in that eight years while in LS....and the registry, paths, associations have been just fine.
Reply #30 Sunday, June 5, 2005 10:14 PM
OK....latest story....dumped back to the Exploder shell....tried to set associations via edit "$1", etc ...all of that....works the first time....closing PSP and trying again fails.
Set associations in PSP via it's config....failed.
Set associations to PS Elements ....worked just fine....loading PS.
Reset to PSP....failed.
Uninstalled PSP and re-installed....set associations in the proggy .... failed.
Latest theory is....PSP6 config associations has been 'broken' by a recent Doze Update .... sometime in the past 2 weeks.
Regedit doesn't do it...
File associations through Exploder doesn't do it...
File associations in PSP doesn't do it....
It's a trivial 'error' or 'bug' but like any of them....damn annoying in their invidiousness....
BTW....only 2 proggies now on the comp that deal with images....PSP and PSE ...[and Paint].
Reg-hack has always been in place to ensure faxviewer doesn't steal the associations....been using the hack since day one of XP...
Reply #31 Monday, June 6, 2005 12:41 AM
I use PSP8 at work for publication image editing, and saw some issues with loading images a couple of months ago.
The explorer shell would crash when PSP8 hung.
It seems to have fixed itself, though I would not be surprised to find out Windows Update changed something in dealing with .jpg files - especially with the security issue exposed in the last year.
Sorry, no advice to offer outside of reassociating with the windows picture and fax viewer, then trying an uninstall > reboot > delete sub-directory > reinstall (very basic stuff). Both you and yraq are well beyond my skill level, and I have not heard anything in regards to PSP - will post if I do.
Reply #32 Monday, June 6, 2005 7:23 AM
Corky ....hi...
Nah....still no luck...uninstalling/reinstalling, etc...no go....it's specifically an issue with PSP....cos associating the files to PS Eliments gets them to load into PSE as you'd expect. Only trying the same thing in PSP...at the moment....does not work at all....not without selecting the image twice....
Reply #33 Monday, June 6, 2005 12:46 PM
I will do the same. If I open PSP and then browse to open a file, everything works fine.
BTW, PSP 7.Reply #34 Monday, June 6, 2005 7:15 PM
Master Apprentice Night Train ...yes, you have the same issue....though mine is PSP6.
A problem shared means two people are frustrated....
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Reply #38 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 5:28 AM
| I know it's not PSP, but maybe related???? MS Photo Editor will not open a dbl-clicked file if the file has a blank space in the name, like 'blank space.jpg'. Will your PSP open a single word file? |
File name doesn't matter. MS Paint works, Photoshop works, PSP does not work.
Reply #39 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 6:46 AM
| File name doesn't matter. MS Paint works, Photoshop works, PSP does not work. |
Wot he sed...
Reply #40 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 3:15 PM
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Reply #21 Saturday, June 4, 2005 2:30 AM