Brushes freeze when trying to access in X5

[jtbec]

I've searched the forum but was unable to find anyone else with this problem. I have Windows 7 64 bit and PSP x5. Everytime I try to access my brushes, it freezes and the drop down menu won't open to select a brush. If I play with it for an hour or so it will finally come down for a second and I have to select quickly before it closes again. I have lots of memory and hard drive space. I've uninstalled KB2670838 windows update, as another forum suggested for general x5 freezes. I deleted all the brushed from the program file and made a separate folder and pointed XP to it in the file locations. Neither one of these solutions helped. The same thing happened with my tubes, but after continually trying to open them several times, it finally opened and from that point on it worked, not so with the brushes which I need to use in my work. Please help, I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall, it took so long to get all the plugins added and working to have to do that again. Is there a simple solution? Any help will be much appreciated.
I'm not ready to have to upgrade to x6 for 64 bit, for I don't know if that will solve the problem, but hope there is a fix for the version I'm using now.
Thanks

[Kathy_9]

Have you tried the "reset your workspace" trick? If not, first save your workspace to preserve any adjustments you may have made. You can do this via File -> Workspace -> Save. Next, close PSP and then re-start PSP by holding down the Shift key while double clicking the PSP icon. It will ask you if you want to revert to default (or similar words) and you just need to click OK.

I would definitely try this before doing an uninstall/re-install as this seems to solve a number of problems.

Good luck.

[jtbec]

Thanks so much, that really helped. I also seemed to have had it on large icons and that may be what was freezing it up too.
Much appreciated.