Adobe Illustrator 11 won't run

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Wednesday, December 19. 2007

The pixel was down today!

Adobe Illustrator 11 would lock up Initializing plug-ins...Illustrator.exe - but really it was mostly random lockups when starting, it wasn't always at illustrator.exe

FYI: Windows XP Pro

What worked for me was removing the 60,000 ACR*.tmp files in "C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Temp" Update: 2008-02-04 if you have a large number of temp files, it's faster and easier to remove them via command line.

Other things I tried were

Renaming C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe

Renaming C:\Program Files\Adobe

Re-installing Illustrator, then the entire CS1 Suite

Trimming fonts down under 1,000 fonts.

But that stuff didn't work - removing the temp files fixed things up.

Hopefully if you have problems starting or running Illustrator, this will help you.

Leave a comment if this helps you.

Cheers

Posted by Chris at 08:13 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wow, I have ~65000 of them, trying to delete now... Thanks.

I tried reinstalling illustrator first thing too.

#1 Jixor on 2008-02-03 20:46 (Reply)

Glad to hear you got fixed up.

I found the fastest and easiest method of temp file removal was through the command line rather than Windows Explorer.

#2 Chris on 2008-02-04 07:02 (Reply)

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