WMF/EMF Files Illustrator CS4

Question

I truly hope this helps someone else out!
After much frustration, I have finally solved the problems I was having with:
A.      Viewing  WMF/EMF files on a Windows Vista pc.
B.      Manipulating WMF/EMF files in Illustrator CS4.
Viewing WMF/EMF Files:
Download IrfanView (Freeware)
During the install, associate WMF/EMF files with IrfanView.
Launch program, select FILE, Select Thumbnails and navigate to folder containing target files.
Manipulate WMF/EMF files in Illustrator:
Select Options, Select Properties/Settings, Select Miscellaneous
Under “Set external editors”
Click Browse, navigate to the Illustrator exe file and select it
Click ok
From the thumbnail viewer window
Right Click on the target image
Go down to “Open with external editor”
Select Illustrator from the fly out
Illustrator launches and the image is available for manipulation.
Cheers
Dan

Answer 1

So the comuter is only for running a script in Illustrator nothing else except it happens in photoshop as well, speaking with forked tongue.
Let m make a suggestion, create a new user account log into that user account aand without loading fonts etc try an open a file in Illustrator or Photoshop.
Leave the fonts as default.
I would say it is a question of a possible conflict or corruption with fonts or plug ins and or the font cache files.
Also the possibility that you are using the stat up disk as the scratch disk instead of another drive true a mca mini only has one drive but a fast external drive of RAID 0 might serve better.
And there may be some dirctories on yu drive that do not have read write privileges when they should so Repair the Permissions as well.