GIMP 2.6.11 crashing?

Ah ite mahn deep breaths. In..........out slowly. OK um you sorta left out your GFX card seeing how this is a graphics manipulation program. er Gnu image blah blah blah. If your computer has a control panel I would see ig your GFX card has one. Check the temperature and see if it is overheating. If it doesn't have a GFX control panel like nvidia or ATI don't try to shove a meat thermometer through its' fan. Moving on. Task manager. Have your task manager running while you are taxing gimp and of course during your mundane edits. See what your cores are doing. Are they peeking at 100%. Just because it is a Dual core does not mean that the rendering side of Gimp will have one to itself and the rest of the computer will use the other core. Is your Gimp still the same as it was when you downloaded it? Are there plugins or scripts that you have downloaded and aren't using or didn't work. Was there another program or piece of hardware installed when you installed 2.6?2.6 is stable for me. I have an old school single core too. It only has 1.5 Gigs of RAM. I would definately uninstall this. Wait wait no blowing up. Open Gimp, go to EDIT, preferences. YOur Preferences winfow will popup. CLick on the arrow to the left of the word folder in the pane on the left of the window. Go to each folders. You brushes, scripts, plugins etc. When you say your final goodbyes to each folder copy the contents you want. DO you have literally hunders of brushes like I do and REFUSE to go back to scrawny Gimp. Well just copy the extras you installed and make a folder on your desktop called old Gimp. Inside of that folder make a folder for each part of Gimp. I have one for each. One for brushes, scripts, plugins, gradients etc. If it does every spontaneously combust i can just set a new path. When you click on Brushes for example. It has a path where Gimp looks for brushes. Click the piece of paper on the left of the little path box. Now that the rectangle is active click the folder icon. From there you can direct it to a new place to look and click OK. So you won't be losing your old friends. But I wouldnt do that with your scripts and plugins. I have a feeling you installed a bad plugin. Some plugins are completely dependent on its' conterpart. There is a sharpness tool that will refuse to work and will crash if the rasterizer isn't installed. ANyways it flies over my head but my point is that something you see simple may be more complex than you realize. So when you reinstall Gimp DON't make new paths to your old folders you just created. Simply copy or drag and drop them A FEW AT A TIME into there respective folders inside of Gimp. After that run your computer for a while. this way you can troubleshoot a few at a time. I just can't see it being Gimp. Does it hiccup or lag or just crash. Have you went to Gimp.org and found the forum for your concern? My computer is weaker than yours and my Gimp works good without crashing. This is just a taste of what it has a href="http://postimage.org/image/1jvue6wuc/." rel="nofollow"http://postimage.org/image/1jvue6wuc/./a Scroll down and click full size so it's just a little blurry. The full size was 12 MB. Too big for Postimage.