Losing functions in Photoshop

Hi,

For some reason, I am losing functions in nearly every menu in photoshop. I have tried v.8 and v.10 with the same results... I have no access to nearly every effect menu, the select menu is almost as worthless and I can't do anything on it anymore. The only way to make the function useable is to open an old file that was made back when it was working. I tried reinstalling, after that didn't work it forced me to use a company version of CS3, which has the same problem.

Does anyone know what may be going on? I don't understand what file in my computer may be doing this... If anyone has had any similar problems, please post without hesitation. This is the second photoshop forum I tried, I hope photoshop team can help :p.

Here are two screenshots of what the effects menu looks like; sorry about the size, I have huge resolution and didn't think about reducing the image size:



Thanks for any help at all, any thoughts are wanted.

If you wanted to know: I am running windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit and I am mainly trying to fix Photoshop v.8, but fixing this one will evidently fix v.10 as well.

what are your image attributes? a lot of filters only work at 8-bit, not 16-bit.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. That makes sense. Could you tell me the default settings when creating a new file? Everything... From basic to advanced settings... I messed with a lot of things. Thanks.

Oh damn, just figured it out. I thought I was screwed. Thanks for the help man. I have all my options back.

Thanks.