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Your processes are ending abruptly. (which is bad news when saving- so it corrupts files). Chances are you might have to reinstall Adobe's Photoshop. Hope you still have the serial numbers on the back of the CD case you got the disc in. (and this is why I got Macromedia and Corel instead- the process for these applications rarely end unless I terminate them manually)

Why can you not uninstall it? Should be right under Add/Remove Programs if you're using a PC.

Could be SBD, at PC shops you can get upgrades that give you more memory, not sure how much they are though.

How much memory do you have?

32MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB/1024MB/etc. RAM

Depending on what pin number/BUS speed the memory stick is depends on the cost of it. Normally; 200-pin 334MHz memory sticks with 512MB SDS-DDR run about $50 USD

There shouldn't be any relation with the fact you can't uninstall a program and the amount of RAM you have. Don't buy RAM if it's not really necessary. The only relation there could be is if there wasn't enough space on your hard drive for the program to run, so a simple thing to do would be to remove some files from your hard drives and check that the free space is enough (1 Gb should be enough)

Your installation of Photoshop is probably broken, can't you just reinstall it? It should correct the problem. If it doesn't solve the problem, try reinstalling it in another directory. Finally, formatting your hard drive will correct the problem for sure, of course it means reinstalling your system.

I doubt it was lack of harddisk space if you managed to a) pirate a copy of Photoshop (ew... warez. Sickening) OR b) download free trial (Yay! No warez). It might be that the version of Photoshop is perhaps on a harddisk cluster that might have been damaged. Bad clusters normally aren't responsive to executable files (i.e. Photoshop, games, etc.). Have you had your harddisk checked for bad/poor clusters- because these can spread like a disease (the domino effect) and eventually will kill the whole drive. Pray that it isn't a bad cluster- also because those are really difficult to repair even with software that cleans it up (actually the software destroys the cluster instead of saving it).

Reformatting is another option, but that indeed erases everything. Chances are, it won't solve the problem though. Repartitioning the drive is another option- because then you can choose what format you want on your drive (but that is longer process and erases everything as well as the operating system).

I think you're going way too far : this sort of problem can very well happen when you reboot your computer without closing it properly, for example. In that case, the software won't be able to boot because there is a session already existing or something like this. Again, the best thing to do would be to reinstall it.

I'm not saying to entirely reinstall Windows just to remove some software that has some simplistic method to solving; I'm only implying it. The files already exist though. I guess the files existing will be replaced, but reinstalling 'might' solve the problem- or make it worse.

Sessions don't normally exist after rebooting (processes yes, but not sessions). If seesions were still running you would know, because you would be getting the great "blue screen of death" with one of those fatal errors occurring and begins memory dumps. It could be that these few process are still running and need to be closed (like the set of a bad pair).

I dunno. I still think you may have a bad cluster though.