[Gimp-user] Error.

[Sleepingbeautiie <forums gimpusers com>]

> Sleepingbeautiie - forums gimpusers com wrote:
> > > On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:14:27 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote:
> >
> > > > And, yeah - that stuff's basically gone away since I've re-installed it again, but now it says it has to 
> > > > do something with the GIMP shortcut in my "bin" folder, so I thought 'Oh, okay...' and clicked on the 
> > > > GIMP 2.8 icon for it to load from there.. but it gave me the same error, the one that I just mentioned, 
> > > > and it always has something to do with "terminating in an unusual way", 'thanks' to Runtime. I'm looking 
> > > > through all my folders now, but there doesn't seem to be a problem.
> >
> > > Is your Windows set to use 16-bit colour mode? There's a known problem with
> > > GTK+ if that's the case - change Windows to 32-bit colours.
> >
> > How do you do that? I mean, do I go to control panel? I really don't know what the problem is, but if it 
> > helps I use Windows Vista/desktop.

> Yes; from Windows Vista Control Panel:
> - from default view: "Adjust screen resolution" (under the "Appearance 
> and Personalization" section) or
> - from classic view: "Personalization" then "Display Settings"

> Either will bring up the "Display Settings" where you can set the colour 
> depth from the drop-down under "Colors". If you have multiple monitors, 
> you might need to set it separately for each one.

> After click "Apply" or "OK" to apply changes, you'll need to click "Yes" 
> before the timer expired when prompted for whether to keep the new 
> settings. If that seems a bit odd, there is a sensible reason - changing 
> display settings incorrectly can prevent anything from being displayed 
> at all, making it difficult to change them back, so if the screen does 
> go blank or scrambled you just need to wait 15 seconds for the timer to 
> expire and it should go back to how it was before.

> Mark.

All right, thanks, I'll try that when I get the time; if it doesn't work, I'll come back and see if there's 
any other kinda solution.

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