Open Office and Photoshop hang ; GDi32

[Guest miso@sushi.com]

Well, it is back again. My X64 running on an AMD64 X2 4400 gets in

this mode where two programs hang: photoshop 6 and open office calc. I

installed open office 3 and it made no difference. This is not a

matter of software updates, since this problem mysteriously comes and

goes.

 

When photoshop hangs, it is in gdi32.dll. Here are the results from a

search on gdi32.dll

http://www.lazygranch.com/temp/gdi32.gif

Now I assume the only gdi32.dll that matters are located in c:\WINDOWS

\system32 and C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64

 

Now from

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948590/en-us

under "for all supported X64-based editions of WIndows XP

Professional, we have

Gdi32.dll 5.2.3790.4237

This matches the rev I have in the system32 directory.

However, I have a smaller version of the file in SysWOW64. Does this

make sense?

[Guest miso@sushi.com]

Re: Open Office and Photoshop hang ; GDi32

 

On Oct 24, 1:51 am, m...@sushi.com wrote:

> Well, it is back again. My X64 running on an AMD64 X2 4400 gets in

> this mode where two programs hang: photoshop 6 and open office calc. I

> installed open office 3 and it made no difference. This is not a

> matter of software updates, since this problem mysteriously comes and

> goes.

>

> When photoshop hangs, it is in gdi32.dll. Here are the results from a

> search on gdi32.dllhttp://www.lazygranch.com/temp/gdi32.gif

> Now I assume the only gdi32.dll that matters are located in c:\WINDOWS

> \system32 and C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64

>

> Now fromhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/948590/en-us

> under "for all supported X64-based editions of WIndows XP

> Professional, we have

> Gdi32.dll       5.2.3790.4237

> This matches the rev I have in the system32 directory.

> However, I have a smaller version of the file in SysWOW64. Does this

> make sense?

 

Once again, the problem went away.