System is Athlon 2.2dual, 2gig RAM, Vista Home Premium 32bit. I have been running Paint Shop Pro 8.0 on this system for nearly a year with no problems until a couple of weeks ago. Then, whenever I clicked on a vector object in the layers palette I would get a series of script errors and PSP would lock up. After trying numerous "fixes", I completely removed and reinstalled PSP; it seemed to work normally again ...for a few days. Now, as soon as I click on the desktop icon I get that Vista irritant "Paint Shop Pro.exe has stopped running...", clicking "more details" gets me:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Paint Shop Pro.exe
Application Version: 8.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3e9f67b9
Fault Module Name: MFC42.DLL
Fault Module Version: 6.6.8063.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd07
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001cd9c
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 7d47
Additional Information 2: 8f38fccbf948f58db30d8b368f3cb576
Additional Information 3: 7a89
Additional Information 4: fe271e83a893a50d748756e2a7cb121d
It seems MFC42.dll is the culprit here, it is part of windows - not PSP (a visual C++ file, I believe). I ran SFC and it reported no problems. This dll has the same time stamp as the other dlls in the directory. I have installed nothing in the past month which would have altered any dlls, the computer is not on any network (its only connection to the outside world is via the power lines), and I'm not having problems with any other software.
So - what now?
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Paint Shop Pro.exe
Application Version: 8.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3e9f67b9
Fault Module Name: MFC42.DLL
Fault Module Version: 6.6.8063.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd07
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001cd9c
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 7d47
Additional Information 2: 8f38fccbf948f58db30d8b368f3cb576
Additional Information 3: 7a89
Additional Information 4: fe271e83a893a50d748756e2a7cb121d
It seems MFC42.dll is the culprit here, it is part of windows - not PSP (a visual C++ file, I believe). I ran SFC and it reported no problems. This dll has the same time stamp as the other dlls in the directory. I have installed nothing in the past month which would have altered any dlls, the computer is not on any network (its only connection to the outside world is via the power lines), and I'm not having problems with any other software.
So - what now?