You know, I used to think abut that, like letting the computer rest. That's very funny. But other than replacing the hard drive or the operating system, which you probably couldn't do either by yourself, here's what you really need to consider. I wish I had thought of it earlier. On Windows Vista you can use the restore feature to return it to an earlier version of the computer's setup. Preferably before whatever software changes occurred to make Gimp run badly, or even perhaps before you ever installed Gimp. However, remember, this feature will totally wipe any changes made to your computer back to the point you choose, so any files, images, contacts, bookmarks etc you wish to save you will have to extract and burn to a disk, ie get off the machine, before you do this process, because it's likely they won't be there anymore. Here's a web page about using it, and i'd research it more if I were you:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-system-restore/ The other thing, is that I believe that the restore function does by itself set up points to return the system to, even if you have never initiated it and established such points yourself. But I am not sure about that, I only used restore in Win 7. So you'll have to see what possibilities, time periods or points, it offers you to travel back to. And remember, I believe this will delete any installed security patches for Vista as well, so you will have to reinstall those again, though I have the feeling you may have not been doing that faithfully unless it's set on automatic. Don't you have a friend or a local shop that you could affordably (or for free) take it to? It sure would make it easier for you. Dan On 11/4/12, Sleepingbeautiie <[email protected]> wrote: >>On 04.11.2012 03:00, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: > >>> I have no idea... and running out of memory? ._____." That's... a bad >>> thing, isn't it? >>> >>> I'm not working on any images - I haven't been able to access GIMP >>> for three, four days, now, so... > >>Patterns might be another cause for this problem. Fonts, too. > >>> I mean, I'll try and follow what >>> Steve said, but.. then again I might just save my brushes into a >>> folder and then revert back to 2.6 to see if that works. > >>You should move any brushes that didn't come with GIMP itself. >>If you've done this already, did anything change? > >>Note that blindly (re-)installing any version of GIMP won't solve the >>problem if anything you have added is causing this. > > Well, yeah, I have moved all brushes that never came with gimp into an > entirely diff. folder, so... I mean, what do you think? Would it work if, > say, I uninstalled GIMP entirely, waited about a month or two (I can cope) > and then try again? > > -- > Sleepingbeautiie (via gimpusers.com) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
