This post seemed important to bring across since it talked about graphic design software.

Corel crashing on you while you try to work on it? I had a family member have the same problem where every time they would open Corel and try doing any type of function (crop, change colors etc) it would crash and give different errors. I volunteered to try and solve this riddle. They took the computer to a type of ‘geek squad’ company down the street and they tried everything from switching out the memory, to reformatting it, reinstalling it and a lot of other methods. Once the computer was brought home guess what happened when Corel was turned on? Yeah it crashed again!

I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do anything extra if the ‘geek squad’ couldn’t fix it. Well I did what most people do and checked Google and it seems like this crash is happening a lot. My first reaction is there must be a problem between windows and Corel. I tried a few fixes like creating a .bat file with some lines of code to try and refresh Corel to reinstalling it. I thought I had it working but a few days later I got the call “It’s broken again!”. Hah, no computer repair person wants to hear that so quickly! To make a long story short however I did end up fixing it *crosses fingers*. It’s been working for two weeks now without any bugs so I am hoping everything is fine!

Oh yeah, I guess you want to know how I fixed it? Well I ended up using the recovery discs that the computer came with and reinstalling windows after backing up all the information. Yeah, I did think the geek squad already did that but they used a different version of Windows XP. I am guessing it has to do with some updates or something to that extent that eventually makes Corel crash like that or bad coding from Corel. Anyways, all’s well that ends well!