Photoshop Elements 3 style file bad or corrupt

[robertn]

After a disk reformat on a Toshiba tablet I reinstalled PS Elements 3 only to find it says "this style file bad or corrupt" on start up of program. I've tried reparing plus uninstall and reinstall but the problem is still there. I installed it on another computer just to see what happened and it worked OK so I'm at a bit of a loss to know what to try next.

After posting the above I found some info on this site that looked helpful such as deleting preferences (this made no change to the problem). Secondly, there was a suggestion about deleting files in Documents & Settings\username\Application Data. To my suprise there was no Application Data folder. I checked the other computer I tried installing it on and yes Application Data existed. I then tried to create an Application Data folder on the problem tablet only to have a message saying it already existed - but it doesn't (a search didn't find it either). The working system is on a laptop running XP Pofessional and the tablet is running XP tablet edition 2005 V 2002 with SP3. The tablet is set up so there is no log in (not sure if that is importnant).

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[loganthecat]

This assumes you are using Photoshop Elements with windows XP

1 make a new user account with administrator priviledges and call it "Dog"
2 run Photoshop Elements from the desktop icon in the Dog user account. it should open and work fine. Close PE.
3 Search for the folder in the Dog user file Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/3(or whatever version)/Editor.
4 Copy the entire Editor folder to a flash drive.
5 log out of dog and log into the user profile that you normally would use for photoshop elements.
6 Locate the Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/..../Editor file in this profile and remove the editor file(put it on the desktop until you are confident of deleting it)
7 Replace the Editor file with the one on your flash drive.
8 Open Photoshop elements from the desktop icon and it should load as it used to.
9 delete the Editor file that you put on the desktop.

It worked for me so I hope it helps