GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 588948
Vista Update Crashes GIMP on Startup and Color Selection Tools
Last modified: 2009-07-18 13:06:14 UTC
I run Vista SP2 on a Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHz machine, and after I installed the update KB961371, GIMP started to crash at the Color Selection tools. A while later, GIMP simply refuses to start. It's like this: "Looking for Data Files <insert items being loaded> then... Starting Extensions then a second later... gimp-2.6.exe has stopped working Windows is trying to find a solution to the problem...." As of now I'm falling back to Photoshop 7(Only PS version I have a license for), while waiting for the bugfix. NOTE: Tested on a x86 install of Vista Home Premium on a x86-64 processor.
We've had loads of duplicates for this issue, thanks for the hint of KB961371, that might enable someone that is on Windows to finally solve this problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 577581 ***