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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Photoshop Tip of the Week #8- Deleting Preferences

If ever you find Photoshop or Elements is acting quirky, doing really weird things, freezing, or seems really really slow, it may be time to delete your preferences.

It is very simple to do. You hold down ALT, SHIFT, and CTRL at the same time right when you click on Photoshop to open. You will get a message asking if it is ok to delete the preferences. Accept it and the program will do the rest.

The preferences will rebuild as the program opens.

4 comments:

Christie said...

now THAT is extremely helpful to me today. thanks. :)

Tonya Boles said...

Thanks. I just tried it, easy.. lol

Dawn Burke said...

I'm not horribly computer literate but I do know that my PSE is going REALLY slowly these days. I'm confused about what to do... Do I do this at the icon on my desktop or after PSE is open? LOL!! I'm slow, can you hold my hand here? Hee hee... thanks!!

Anonymous said...

The preferences will rebuild... wow, great tip! My pc has been a little sluggish, I'm going to try this.

Thanks