[face=Arial][/face][color=black][/color]Hi, I just switched my PSP 7 from a computer running Win 98 to one running XP (SP2). I keep on getting error messages with certain plugins, DC's, Filter Factory, Andrews, etc. XP says PSP can not open plugin such-n-such, reinstall files may be missing? Flaming Pear stuff works great and so does Xeno. I do have some duplicate files within my "plugin" folder, so maybe deleting those will help. If anyone has anything else I could try, I'd love to hear.

Thanks!

I just tried some of my DC & Filter-Factory plugins that I haven't used in years, and they work (I thought that I remembered that some didn't).  So I wonder if you have simply transferred your plugins folder from your Win98 installation to the new XP installation instead of reinstalling every one of your plugins.  I suggest that you pretend you never had those plugins and then unzip and install them the way you would if you had just downloaded them, or even download new copies.  Files get corrupted by the weirdest things sometimes, and the longer the file exists . . .

And, relevant to using PSP7 and XP:  Your difficulty may have to do with your Windows "appearance" settings.  In System Properties, Advanced tab, Performance panel (click the "settings" button), make sure that you do not have "Fade or slide menus into view" or "Fade or slide ToolTips into view" checked.  These have caused problems because Microsoft didn't check to see that the XP code wouldn't conflict with code in older PSP versions.  In that System Properties dialog, try selecting "for best performance" and see if that changes anything with your plugins.

Thanks for the input. I tryed to re-install the plugs and uncheck the Windows stuff, but still nothing. I have looked at the properties of the DC plugs that work, and they have different text then the ones that don't. For some reason my Adobe Audition is corrupting the plugins, because the problem plugs are copyrighted by Adobe vs DC. I'm at a loss, so I guess I'll just use the ones that work. However, Dark Glass, (the layering plug), was VERY useful, and a cool plugin. Is there something similar within PSP 7 or a different plugin?

Thanks Again

I think you can get a similar effect with a "remove black" plugin (I think that's the name), or just by going to selections > modify > [next is something with "transparent" or "transparency" in the name of the tool], make the blacks transparent or nearly so, and tweak the results.

Maybe someone with PSP7 will see this and help.

The plugin D Spider is referring to is called Eliminate Black and has a sister pluging called of course Eliminate White and both can be downloaded at this link:

http://www.brothersoft.com/publisher/joe-cilinceon.html

another sript is by Sheil soft, SDtransparent.