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good evening i had this problem when i open photoshop, "kernel security check failure" with a blue screen, i just check the hdd and the memory,i have this problem only with photoshop
thanks for the help
If you have an nvidia graphics card, try rolling back your driver instead. As far as i've been able to tell, the problem began with the driver released on 12/21/15. If you roll back to the a 12/01/15 or older driver you should be fine. After rolling back to that driver I haven't had any issues.
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Hi mirkor,
In order to understand the issue more clearly, please provide us with the following information:
I would also suggest you to run Photoshop in administrator mode and check if it helps. You can follow the steps to run in admin mode:
a) Right click on the icon of Photoshop.
b) Click on "Run as admin" option.
Regards,
Chetna
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hello
i also tried to lunch as "admin" but nothing change, lightroom installed on the same pc work good
regard
Mirko
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Thanks for the update.
Follow the below steps :
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sorry for the late in the reply
now it seems to work good, the file sniffer.exe i can delete or leave on the desktop?
thanks
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that's fine.
You can delete the sniffer.exe file from desktop as Photoshop would have recreated that file at the same location.
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It works
Remove sniffer.exe and then after launching PS make sure that GPU is unchekcked from Edit>Preferences>Preformance [windows]
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I have the same problem but with Premiere Pro CC 2015.. Can't find a sniffer.exe though
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Panicked for about 10 minutes - read this solution - tried - happy again!
Thank you very much!
@lautrupmedia: my sniffer.exe was in \Program Files\Adobe CC\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
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Found mine but when I removed it it wouldn't start att all.. Just gave me a munch of error messages..
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I had sniffer_gpu.exe so I have deleted it instead. Worked like a charm afterwards. Thanks!
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I encountered the same problem since my driver updated in late December last year. I searched for solutions and there's thing about changing the default graphics driver. It worked for a while but the Kernel Security Error came back just today. Luckily, i found this thread. Deleting sniffer_gpu.exe made my Photoshop CS6 work again. Thank you!
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It helped, now it works fine.
Thank you
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that worked for my thank you so much for your advices
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I've recently gotten the Kernel problem again, i've done as you've said and moved the sniffer.exe file to desktop and launched photoshop. But it still happens, what am i doing wrong?
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I found it, deleted it and then when I started up I got this error: Adobe Premiere Pro could not find any capable video play modules. Please update your video display driver and try again.
But I just updated my driver and it sais up to date so I'm not sure what to do..
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Hi lautrupmedia,
Would suggest you to post your query regarding Premiere Pro in Premiere Pro Forum.
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i am having the same issue with Premiere Pro CC 2015.. i have deleted the Sniffer.* file.. running PP as Administer.. all my driver are updated to current.. still get Blue Screen.. only when running Premiere Pro CC 2015.. all other programs work fiine.. please advise...thanks
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if you are still having issues with premiere, there seems to be a solution for now. That is if you have an nvidia graphics card. It appears that the latest driver for nvidia is causing the issue. After rolling back to the previous driver released on 12/01/15 everything started working like normal again for me. Driver Rollback | NVIDIA that link will tell you how to roll back your nvidia driver. The latest driver is probably what was causing issues for photoshop as well. The solutions given above basically just disable your nvidia gpu, which will likely slow down performance for a lot of people.
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alrobles291... you saved my life. i was just about to take it to a computer shop.. all this time i thought it was the intel HD 4600 graphics. because most of the info out was pointing to that.. so i rolled back the NVDIA driver and no more blue screen. after hours on chat with intel, Microsoft, dell, and adobe... Alrobles291 to the rescue
thanks, Recie
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Thank you!
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thx ! It's fixed by now, but i'll check it later
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Had the crash again today I'll try the snippet.exe for the 2Nd time
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If you have an nvidia graphics card, try rolling back your driver instead. As far as i've been able to tell, the problem began with the driver released on 12/21/15. If you roll back to the a 12/01/15 or older driver you should be fine. After rolling back to that driver I haven't had any issues.
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> Had the crash again today I'll try the snippet.exe for the 2Nd time
Did you update Photoshop? It will have put back the sniffer.exe, just remove it again.
There was an update on my Mac yesterday, my Windows machine Creative Cloud is still failing to update but I'm not bothering to fix it, too much wasted time on broken updates recently.