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A way to get to some graphic files?

Jan 15, 2011 7:15AM PST

I have a really old Microsoft program, Microsoft Picture it! photo 2002. It will no longer load. It used to have the following message, now it doesn't do anything except make a sound and quit. You can get it all the way to opening a project, then it dies. The message is:

Runtime error!
Program\Program Files\MicrosoftPictureit!2002\pip.exe
abnormal program termination

It has some really great and unique graphic files (greeting cards) that I would like access to.

Microsoft used to have a utility to catalog(?) clip art, but I haven't seen it ask me to catalog anything for some time now. I'm not sure my current OS (XP) still does this. Might that pull the graphics out of that program?

Any ideas?

bkay

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All I could suggest
Jan 15, 2011 9:56PM PST

is to search through the Program file's folder for any image files, eg .bmp .jpg .gif .png

You may find them in the C:\Program Files\MicrosoftPictureit!2002\ folder or any of its sub-folders.

Have you tried uninstalling then reinstalling the software?

Mark

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Thanks
Jan 16, 2011 7:00AM PST

Thanks, Mark. Yes, I've tried it on different computers, even. It does the same thing on two differnt computers. I've one computer I've not tried it on. I'll do that.

Thanks again,

bk