[Gimp-user] GIMP Crashing

[Jennings Almond <j_almond bellsouth net>]

I have GIMP 2.8 and windows 8.1. If I open more than one file and try to move one with the left-right, 
up-down icon, GIMP crashes.  I thought I might "overload the 8.2 version with a more current version GIMP 
8.2.16.  It did't work.  So, I thought I would uninstall GIMP altogether and reinstall the newer version..  
To my unpleasant surprise, the directory still calls it a 2.8 version and when I reloaded it anew, I still 
had the same problems; it did not work.. I've had this problem with no other vision of GIMP.
I realize that since GIMP is free, I should not complain.  I still have one question: When they have a 
program that works, why do their programmers keep fiddling with it until it does'nt work?
Jennings Almond