gus_zimmerman writes:
> I then ran msconfig again and disabled all non essential start-up
> programs. Gimp tan fine again. Based on this I'm wondering if
> gimp is crashing because of a lack of available memory.
Nah, don't think so. Some of the non-essential startup programs you
have is broken. This isn't that uncommon. I hate it when everybody and
their mother wants to install some small utilities that provide some
useless functionality and hang around in the status bar. The less
extra software of dubious quality that is running on the machine all
the time, the better.
--tml