11 Replies Latest reply: Feb 1, 2009 2:59 PM by TM2-Megatron RSS

    Photoshop CS3 won't launch, but shows up in Processes

    TM2-Megatron Community Member
      I've been having an odd problem recently with Photoshop under 64-bit Vista. When trying to open it (whether by clicking on a file associated with it, my desktop shortcut, from the start menu, or on the *.exe file itself), it fails to launch 90% of the time and opens the remaining times at seeminly random intervals.

      For each time I try to open it and it fails, though, a new listing of "Photoshop.exe *32" shows up under the processes tab of the Windows Task Manager.

      Just yesterday, I did a clean install of Windows and reinstalled CS3 Master Collection, and the problem is still there. I've tried disabling nearly every non-Microsoft service from the MSConfig utility, and it still happens.

      Does anyone have any idea of what could be causing this?