What happens if you do a CtrlAltDelete during teh freeze? Can you get out of that operation or just the program?
In Photoshop the answer would be to trash (reset) preferences. I don't know is PSP has anything like that. I'd look around for a PaintShop Pro forum.
I have PSP x I was in the middle of exporting a picture into a tube and it just sorta up and froze...
I also get this message ...
microsoft visual c ++ runtime Library
runtime error ..program:... files\corel\corel pspx\pspx.exe
abnormal program termination
Now I have scan, defraged, uninstalled, reinstalled, system restore, everything I can think of, and when I go back to check..I can open PSP get a new canvas..do everything as normal until I decide I want a tube..then I get stuck with loading new tube 98% and last time I checked it sat like that for over 12 hours.
I have a Intel Pentium 4, windows xp, highspeed.
Is there a way I can canceal this out? Get around it..something, anything....I haven't been able to work PSP X in 3 days..and I'm going nuts..I am so addicted to this program.....lol
Thank you....

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