[Gimp-user] Help! My Gimp won't work

[troy mccombs <troymccombs gmail com>]

I downloaded Gimp about a year ago. Just recently, I upgraded it to the 2.8 thing. Well, when I open the old version, it doesn't work. It worked when I opened the new version. Just to be safe, I tried uninstalling the old version, but couldn't get it to uninstall when I clicked UNINSTALL.

Okay, so I left it there.

 

The new version has worked fine until two days ago. Every time I click on it, it freezes and says "GIMP has stopped working". I tried again to uninstall the old version, but it still would not let me. I even tried system restore and still, couldn't get the new version to work. I don't know what happened. It was working absolutely fine until just a couple days ago. What can I do to fix this?

 

I thought of uninstalling the new version and reinstalling, but am terrified of losing a few files I've done recently...