Re-installed Photoshop 5.0, not opening.

My Photoshop 5.0 just stopped working one day, so I un-installed it. When I tried to re-install it wouldn't do it at first. It finally re-installed but when I try to open Photoshop all I get is the top menu and a gray background with the hourglass. And then nothing happens. I have the windows xp if that makes a difference. I'm hoping someone and give me some advise so I can use this program again. Thanks!!

I read this forum string, and others related to the exact same topic.
I played around with some of the suggestions, but nothing worked.
However, I did create my own solution.
Under WinXP (with Admin access) I created a new "Photoshop" user account, with Administrator-level access, with a password.
Problem solved.
I switched users to the new Photoshop account, entered the password, and Windows did its thing setting up a new user with an almost blank desktop. I found the executable for Photoshop (5.0.2), and it fired right up.
I don't think the problem was WinXP SP-3, per se. I think we all have so many programs that load up and start on our machines, with files that are TSR (terminate and stay resident) in RAM, that the newer files may conflict with older files used by older software, in this case, Photoshop 5.0.
I hope this works for you. Photoshop 5.0 is still a great program. Granted, there are many more capabilities with newer Adobe software, but all I really need is 5.0.

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Free memory: 9943 MB
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onOne
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