"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Dunno. It apparently doesn't happen on all computers with Photoshop and
XP. And perhaps Photoshop SE doesn't cause the same problem?

'Sup Jay.

I'm kinda late in this thread but thought I'd toss this out there, anyway:
I know you already found a fix for your particular issue but if you just
want to view your files and do some light editing, you need to check out
Google's Picassa. It's a free download that organizes your pics, allows for
easy burning, easy captions and basic editing tools.

http://picasa.google.com/

As to your initial problem with locking up, I would point to your particular
type of RAM memory in your computer as a culprit. It sounds like you only
have the problem when you "hit" your RAM in just the right (wrong) way.
Another fix may have been to simply swap RAM modules from one slot to
another or replace the RAM altogether.

A glance at the "Event Viewer" in "Computer Management" would probably give
you a clue as to the root issue.

In any case, I'm glad you found the problem.

Jim