flash (macromedia): I am trying to start up Flash from the Studio MX 2004 Educational version and when Flash gets to "initializing fonts", it seems to die. I am running Win98 SE and when I check the Close Program window, Flash is "not responding". Anyone have any ideas? I was running the program yesterday then got hit with a bunch of spyware stuff. Don't know if this is causing any conflicts?

Thanks

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Thanks for the detail... the failure occurring at that time usually
indicates some problem loading fonts... in the past I've seen similar
symptoms associated with a particular damaged font, or in some cases an
older font manager (rarer now). The way to confirm this as a cause is to
simplify down to the basic font set to check whether the behavior
changes, and then to slowly add fonts until the suspect one is identified.

jd




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You can also try rebooting your system in safe mode and see if the same thing would happen. To start Windows in Safe Mode (95/98/2000/Me/XP), hold down the F8 key while the system is booting up. When the Windows startup menu appears, select Safe Mode. Once Windows has been booted into Safe Mode/VGA Mode, run the application and perform the same actions that caused the problem. If the problem does not occur in Safe/VGA Mode, then it's likely that other applications or drivers which are running when in Normal mode are causing the conflict. For more info please click on this link: <http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/windows_help.htm>