Adobe was hanging up upon opening a file - change of default computer fixed it. Why?

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Published on 2010-04-23T17:48:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 17:53 UTC
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Our designer's copy of Adobe Photoshop suddenly started hanging up when she would try to open a file. After some research I found a forum in which it was suggested to change the default printer - that this had fixed it for other users with the same problem.

It worked. My question is, WHY did it work?

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