[Leica] OT: PC woes, Mac Guys Ignore

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

I turn to you as this does have a bit of a photo 
twist.  Allow me to keep it short.

For the past five or six years, I have used 
Photoshop 5 as my scanning program.  No, I do not 
understand the program but it does work to allow 
me to scan and to process PDF files.  Or, well, it did.

Several days ago, I tired to scan a document and 
the program would not load.  I fought with 
Photoshop fr a day or so and then figured, well, 
something has gone wrong.  I deleted it and tried 
to reload it only to be met with some "Photosle" 
program which seems to read every program disk as 
a photo disk.  I then went to the pre-emptory 
reload of Windows XP and was advised that, as I 
had permitted Microsoft to send me the periodic 
updates, I could no longer reload the basic program.

Any thoughts?  Anyone know of a basic and free 
program which permits scanning of PDF files and 
basic manipuation of them?  Or should I just do a 
basic dump of the entire hard-drive and start again from the ground?

Thanks for your thoughts.  Oh, yes!  I have run 
SpyBot and CCCleaner and AdAware, all to no avail.

Marc


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