reset photoshop cs2 settings

everything i am doing lately in cs2 is not working. my quick masks aren't doing what they are supposed to, all my presets are off... basically everything is a mess. how do i reset photoshop cs2 to its original form with all the manufacturers presets and settings? please help. don't know how long i can go without photoshop.

If you're on a Mac go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete or move or rename all of the preference files related to Adobe. Then launch Photoshop again and it'll recreate them all to factory defaults.

If you're not on a Mac, buy a Mac.

unfortunately i am on windows. just might have to consider a mac. but, since i am currently running windows, i need to find out how to reset to the defaults on the windows version of cs2.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-42,GGLG:en&q=reset+photoshop+cs+preferences

This found me this: http://www.heathrowe.com/faqs.asp

i don't know why i hadn't tried that before. i followed the link to about.com and there tutorial on how to reset to default preferences.

so to reset to default -- everybody -- press and hold ctrl+alt+shift after opening photshop but before the credits box appears. then a dialogue box appears asking to reset to default. that should fix all problems that you might have with your existing photshop (5.0 and up).

im not saying you did, but i do know that photoshop degenerates usability stealthy if it finds a blacklisted cd key

seems as though you fixed it. awesome
-tim