GIMP Trouble

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Microsoft Windows XP, Home edition, Version 2002.

eMachine T1150Intel Celeron CPU 1300MHz, 1.30GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD.

Basically every time I try to open GIMP the box thats supposed to come up the first time you run it does, but it is blank and it exits out just as quickly as it came up.

I tried bug report lists, A GIMP forum, and the various sections on fixing GIMP on their web site. No help

After that I tried completely uninstalling this the best I knew how(some one told me how to pretty much remove all the traces of it). I also got rid of the installation things to it, and the shortcuts to any part of it. Then I ran the Microsoft Malicious Software Remover, McCafee anti virus, Eusing registry repair wizard. And the tools to free up space on and clean the hard drive. After that I rebooted.

Then I reinstalled the gtk runtime thing and gimp(after having downloaded them again of course. Same problem. So I did it all again(save the forum and help files thing since I already knew what they had to say). And tried installing an older held over version for the site... still same problem.

I am beginning to think there is nothing wrong with either the runtime thing or the gimp but that something is conflicting in some way with it. But what could be doing that?

Gimp, also.

I downloaded Version 2.0.5 and it works great.

It can be downloaded here

http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gimp-2.0.5-i586-setup.zip

Uninstall the other version and restart your computer before you install this version.


Hope this helps.


Rick

I have tried the old GIMP, new GIMP and portable GIMP...They all do that same weird box thing (old gimp does it with a different box though).

Are you using or have downloaded Internet Explorer 7?

I had Internet Explorer 7 disable a few of my other programs.

Uninstall all versions of Gimp and restart your computer

Run a registry cleaner to remove any items that may be left.

Restart your computer.

If you have it, I would recommend that you

Go to control panel

click ad/remove programs

show updates

go near the bottom and remove internet Explorer 7, it will revert back to IE 6

you will be prompted with the message, these programs were install and may not function properly, click ok and follow the instructions.

Restart your computer and try to install Gimp again and it will most likely work.


Rick

tried it... still doesn't work