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Okay, so I have Adobe Photoshop CS2, and I've had it for a while now. The problem is, recently, it refuses to start up. It keeps saying the scratch disks are full, etc etc, so it can't load the brushes and stuff.

First of all, what's a scratch disk anyways? How do I clean it out or whatever so it's NOT full? How can I get photoshop to work again?! -panic-

This has happened to me before as well.
The simplest solution is to do a quick reinstall. That should fix your problem.

Good Luck.

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I had to do a 4 page report. Finally after 2 weeks of working on it the report is FINISHED! Only thing is, the proper format is to have your last name and page number on the top of the page, right justified. Yes, I tried to go to view header/footer but it does not allow me to customize the header for each individual page. Example: First page needs to say at VERY TOP [insert my last name here]1, second page [insert my last name here]2, etc. When I go to view header footer, I can't have each page have the number on it. I know there is a way to do this, but I can't remember how. And I don't mean just typing it in at the top of the page because if I go back to edit something, it will move and I don't want to go through having to retype it all. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you =)

All you have to do is click view --> Header and Footer.

Once the Header pops up, a Header and Footer toolbar should pop-up along with it. Type your last name into the header. To insert the page number, look on the header and footer toolbar for a button that looks like a little piece of paper with this: # symbol on it. Click that.

It should automatically insert the page number of each page.

Good Luck!

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i got this weird virus on my computer through AIM..i did a virusscan on my comp. and it said there was nothing there but it still kept acting funny. so i restored my computer to an earlier date, will this get rid of it???? thanks, i rate 5's!!

Mackenzie's suggestion may work. It really depends on what kind of virus you have here.
Try her solution before trying mine.

If the type of virus you have is a trojan virus then it wont be so easy to get rid of because most of them install themselves in the system32 folder and there are litterally thousands of files in there. System restore isn't guaranteed to get rid of the virus so if you continue having problems then you might want to try this. I've done it many times and it's been pretty succesful for me. I just hope I can explain it well enough...

Turn off system restore and restart your computer. Go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and use their free virus scan option. It will download the latest definitions to your computer and then do a scan. After scanning turn system restore back on. Do another virus scan. Stop here if it doesn't detect a virus.

If it still finds a virus then turn off system restore again, reboot into safe mode and do a scan. After scanning, reboot into normal mode and turn your system restore back on. This seemed to work for me.

If you're not sure how to do any of the stuff I just mentioned, here's the steps:

To turn off system restore right click on my computer-->properties-->click on the system restore tab--> put a check mark in the turn off system restore box & then click apply. To turn it back on simply remove that check mark and click apply.
To get into safe mode, if needed, while your computer is restarting hit f8, a black screen with a white lettered menu will come up asking you how you would like to start up your computer. choose "SAFE MODE" and hit enter.

I suck at explaining things so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on aim: Crystal8888888

Hope this helped! Good Luck!

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I keep my computer on pretty much 24 hours a day. It doesn't really seem to be a problem. But earlier today I went to check my computer and it had a blue tint over everything. It has done this before, but last time I just refreshed the desktop, and it went back to normal. This time, I've tried refreshing it and restarting it and it doesn't seem to want to go back to normal. I don't know what I did to make it go blue, and it's a very pretty blue, but I would like to have my normal screen back.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?

I don't know much about computers but it could be too much saturation... i dunno.... try playing around with the buttons on the bottom of your screen.

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