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Gimp 2.6 freezes on querying shift.exe - Win 7

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Gimp 2.6 freezes on querying shift.exe - Win 7 Fluffmeister 11 Dec 22:49
  Gimp 2.6 freezes on querying shift.exe - Win 7 Ofnuts 12 Dec 00:05
Fluffmeister
2011-12-11 22:49:21 UTC (about 13 years ago)
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Gimp 2.6 freezes on querying shift.exe - Win 7

I've been using Gimp for a while on my Windows XP machines, but recently I got two new PCs, both running Windows 7 64 bit.

Gimp appears to install fine, but when I run it, it hangs on "querying plugins: shift.exe". And when I say hang, it's a serious hang - I can't open any other programs (eg the Chrome browser), and the only solution is to shut down the PC.

Both the laptop and my desktop PC are pretty new - they don't have much stuff on them yet - and they both hang at this point, so I haven't been able to run Gimp at all.

Anyone else had this problem?

Any suggestions very welcome - thanks in advance!

Chris.

Ofnuts
2011-12-12 00:05:08 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Gimp 2.6 freezes on querying shift.exe - Win 7

On 12/11/2011 11:49 PM, Fluffmeister wrote:

I've been using Gimp for a while on my Windows XP machines, but recently I got two new PCs, both running Windows 7 64 bit.

Gimp appears to install fine, but when I run it, it hangs on "querying plugins: shift.exe". And when I say hang, it's a serious hang - I can't open any other programs (eg the Chrome browser), and the only solution is to shut down the PC.

Both the laptop and my desktop PC are pretty new - they don't have much stuff on them yet - and they both hang at this point, so I haven't been able to run Gimp at all.

Anyone else had this problem?

Any suggestions very welcome - thanks in advance!

shift.exe corresponds to a plugin that isn't much used as far as I know (Filters/Distorts/Shift), so at least as a temporary measure you can disable it (rename to shift.exe.disabled) and see if Gimp becomes functional (if so I suspect your Gimp installer to be corrupt, because this plugin is fairly basic and doesn't do anything that other plugins don't).