It works! Thank you so much! I know it seems like such a little thing, but having documents full screen like this is so handy! We build parts and service books for huge industrial machines and have hundereds of documents in these books. Having them all open like this will be amazing!    This community is great!  ... View more

Oh my god... forgive my stupidity for not catching that!    Thank you! ... View more

I pasted the text into notepad, saved as a .jsx file, and went to the system folder you told me to. There wasn't a startup folder, so I created one. I named it startup and my windows username (startup bce75), correct? I then pasted the .jsx file into this folder.  ... View more

I changed the zoom settings in both maker.ini files and neither one changed anything when the document opens. It sill opens at 100% unless I save the document at 120%.  ... View more

It looks like there is! I'm currently editing a few documents and switching between Fm and Illustrator. I'm going to look into it after I'm done.  ... View more

I was curious so I just copied it and opened it. I guess I answered my own question! Thanks!  ... View more

Hmm, is the maker.ini like a settings or preferences file?  ... View more

Thanks, Barb! I had a feeling it wasn't possible, but I never thought about keyboard shortcuts! I'm going to try working with those, unless one of the memebers you mentioned may have another alternative.    Thanks again!  ... View more

Doing more work this morning. I finished the parts pages I was working on. I was able to work on one page at a time without having to close Illustrator. I then tried opening a new file (not a template) using File>New and tried opening a basic 8.5 x 11 new document. It opened enough to show the artboard then Illustrator froze. It has done it three times in a row. Illustrator is basically unusable at this point and my work is taking a huge hit in productivity. Photoshop, Framemaker, Acrobat, Bridge... all these programs work perfectly as does all the other non Adobe programs on my computer. Of course, most of my work is done in Illustrator and it's the one causing huge issues.  ... View more

I've been working with Illustrator all day, and I've found that I have more issues when working with emf files than anything. I've been able to work on a few .ai files that I had previously made, save them, and open another file without Illustrator locking up, but when I tried to copy from an emf and paste into a new template, Illustrator froze.    I have been able to copy from an emf and place into a template, save the file then create another file without locking up, but more often than not Illustrator is going to lock up. My current work around has been to work on one file, save, close out illustrator, then re launch illustrator and work on the next file, and so on. This has definitely slowed down my productivity.  ... View more

Since I posted, I have been working on a parts page that I already created. I did my edits that I normally would (change line weights and colors, added callouts, etc) and saved the file. I then went to open the next page and Illustrator locked up again. Apparently it isn't just .emf files as I was working on an .ai file.  ... View more

I've been messing with this for the last hour and here is what I've done-   I'll start off by telling you that I am a technical illustrator. I build parts books for heavy industrial machines. I've been doing this same job for 13 years. We have always used Illustrator to create our parts pages. We have gone from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and now Windows 11. We have been using the same programs this entire time. Yes, programs have updated over the years, but we have never had issues like this.    Our process is we export cad drawing views as line art from Seimens NX cad software. We export it as an .emf file. We open the emf in illustrator, ungroup and release the clipping mask and copy the drawing view to an illustrator template.    Here is what I have noticed- When I first open Illustrator, I open my emf file, then I open my custom template file, copy my view from the emf file and paste it to the illustrator template. I resize the view then save the illustrator file. When I go to open the template file again to make a new parts page, Illustrator then locks up. The template file opens as a tab in Illustrator, but the screen remains blank (it should normally load with my grid and art board). I get the spinning cursor, and if I click on the "X" in the upper right corner to close Illustrator, I will get the message that Illustrator is not responding.    If I choose to close the program through the windows error window, I find that I don't lose my loaded custom actions, and that my other preferences don't seem to rest. I only have to reselect my custom workspace. If i force close Illustrator with Task Manager, it seems like I lose all my saved preferences and I have to reload my custom actions.    I opened Illustrator in safe mode as you requested, and it worked normally. I was able to make 7 parts pages without issue.    I then tried the same thing after restarting from safe mode, and the problems returned.    It seems to be an issue with .emf files. I copied a graphic from another parts page I created and Illustrator had no problems copying and pasting and then opening a new template. This drawing page I copied from was saved as an .ai file.   I can also open as many emf files,  templates files or regular new files as I want and they will all open fine. It's only after I copy and paste a view from the emf file, then try to open a new template that the issues arises.    I did roll back to Illustrator 29.3 and I experienced the same issues. I was previously using 29.3 on my old computer running Windows 10 and it was fine. I just upgraded computers and operating systems a few days ago. So far, Illustrator has been the only program to cause me issues.    I hope this helps and if you need any more information, hopefully I can provide it.     ... View more

I am having the same issues with 29.3.1. It is infuriating! This is a fresh install on a new computer with a fresh install of Windows 11. my system specs are...   HP Z4 Workstation with Intel Xeon 3.60GHz CPU Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 128GB RAM 2 SSD- 1 TB and 3TB   I get random spinning cursor when opening files and illustrator never responds. Sometimes it will crash, and seems to wipe my preferences in the process. Other times I have to use task manager to kill the program. It's happening with maybe every other file I try to open. It happens with files from a network drive, it happens with files on my local drive, it also happens when opening template files. It's happened when trying to edit graphics from a Framemaker document too.    I just switched from a system that was running Illustrator 29.3 and it was fine. I guess I'm going to play the rollback game as I've done in the past. I'm way too busy to keep doing this.    ... View more

I had upgraded to the previous update, had issues, and went back to one I knew was working. I figured that I'm paying for updates and that surely they had things figured out by now... wrong! So far though, this is the only problem I've ran into.  ... View more

Yeah, that works too, but the right click has been ingrained in my workflow for the last 12 years. It's frustrating when they take things away like that.  ... View more

I lost all of my preferences as well. I think it was still faster to restore all of my preferences than to deal with how slow the latest update was. But, I bet we got some cool new Generative AI features instead!  ... View more

Oh, I belive you about the network! They can be fickle for sure.   I wasn't aware of the printer thing. We have a big BizHub copier that we use in the department and it's working fine.    Thanks! ... View more

I've actually had really good results with saving to our network drives over the years. It's just recently that I've encountered issues.  I copy and paste vector line art from engineering drawings onto my new illustrator document. Those drawings are saved on the network, but I've been doing it this way for the last 11 years without issues.  Fonts are working fine. I'm using Adobe Fonts. Printer? We have a print server that we print through and it's working fine.  I'm using the CADTools plugin by Hotdoor but it happens without it too.  ... View more

As soon as I click "Save". It doesn't matter where I save. I usually save to the same network drive I've been saving to for the last 11 years, but I can save locally and it will do the same thing.  ... View more

I'm having basically the same issue. Mine crashes when doing any kind of saving. Well, I guess crash isn't correct. It stops responding and I have to use task manager to end it. I let it go all night once and it was still not responding the next morning. I've tried the same steps you have and am still having issues.  HP Z4 Workstation Intel Xeon W-2125 4.0 GHz processor 32 GB RAM Invidia Quadro P2000 video card Windows 10 Pro for Workstations fully up to date Adobe Illustrator 28.1   ... View more

D Fosse, thanks for posting the link to the main bug report. I added my vote.  ... View more

I've been putting off using photoshop as long as I can, but I had to use it yesterday and I just wanted to scream. How can an issue like this persist for so long?! This thread was started back in freaking March! This has been going on for 7 months! Does no one from Adobe ready anything posted in these forums? ... View more

Thanks! I felt kind of stupid once I figured it out!   I still don't like the contextual tool bar though.  ... View more

So... I found it. I had some work I had to finish before I attempted resetting preferences, but afterwards I did a restart. I opened Illustrator and there was still nothing. I toggled Control Panel on and off several times to no avail. I was just getting ready to reset my preferences, but I decided to restart again. Still nothing. Then, I'm not sure what made me look, but I found it while making sure my actions were backed up.   I have two monitors. My right monitor is my work monitor for Photoshop, Illustrator, Framemaker, NX, Acrobat, etc. My left monitor is where i keep all of my panels. For Illustrator, I have my panels across the entire top of the screen. My control panel was BEHIND all these. It would never come to the front when toggling it for some reason, but I moved my actions panel out of the way and was able to drag my control panel back into place! Ugh!!!!!    Thanks for the help and ideas! I guess you can never tell what some programs are going to do.  ... View more