Please help! programs freeze!

My programs seem to freeze everytime I try to change the color of anything font/background/whatever it maybe. As soon as the color option window pops up for me to choose the color i want, then the program freezes and i have to force quit it. Im not very good with computers, if anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciate! thanks so much -

chaie31,
Is this just in one application or several? If just one a first shot might be to trash the application's Preferences file and/or give the application more memory.
More information would be helpful. Which application(s)? Are you running in OS9 or Classic within OSX?
Michael

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