Gimp Crashes more often than Not

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Nov 02, 2013 2:09 am **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.4
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 7 Home Premium
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

List any relevant plug-ins or scripts:
NA

List any ERROR messages you received:
GNU Image Manipulation Program has stopped working

Can happen whenever I load a picture or start working on it. As I said in the title it doesn't always happen. I was able to just work on a photo. I have restored my computer at least twice in the last year. I don't want to have to do that again if I don't have too. I run an Anti virus once a day. Also Spybot regularly.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:02 am **(#2)**

sallyanne: i'm no expert on this but my gimp was shaky and unstable for a period last year, crashing a lot. what i did was: 1. first look over what i had installed and remove any newly installed scripts and plug-ins, then clean out among my brushes, patterns, gradients, etc. so the folders weren't so cluttered. that helped - i still don't know exactly what caused the crashes but my gimp was stable again.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:11 am **(#3)**

Thankyou Anmal.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:23 am **(#4)**

At the moment it is all the time when I go to open photos even as small as 49kb. Just incase it was the program I uninstalled it and installed another. Still it is happening. Only thing I haven't tried that I can think of is try a portable gimp on here. Is quite annoying as I can't do any thing I would like to do on gimp at the moment.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

With 7 are possible problems of permission, try this
instead then launch normally by double click RIGHT click on gimp exe (or on the icon ) and chose RUN AS ADMIN

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:30 am **(#6)**

Do I have to do this everytime? Even let me open a 1.2 MB image this time
Thanks PC