CS3 won't open in windows vista

My photoshop was working fine yesterday, now every time I try to open it, I get an error message that says "Photoshop CS3 has stopped working" then it closes down.  Any suggestions?

Nothing else has changed.  I can't do the Control-Alt-shift because I get it gives me the error message before I have the option to delete file settings.
I will try to uninstall and reinstall.

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