Consistent snooping got lucky. Bumped across a forum which gave links to all 5 of the patches for PSP X3. These patches were no longer available on the Corel site. The links were direct downloads to Patches 1-5, and they worked. They are all downloaded, but not yet installed. I will do so and report the results. They are supposed to make PSP X3 work on WIN 8.1 A link to the forum which has the 5 links is below, in case anyone else has a possible need for them. Here is a link that might be useful: Forum with Patches for PSP X3

Dar, The problem is, you have this path... C:\pspStuff\Texturizer\filter It needs to be this path... C:\pspStuff Mine is C:\PSPStuff\PlugIns because I have another sub folder there. And I don't have the 3rd box checked...Limit loaded plug-in files... But that's not the reason this isn't working. It's your path. When I said in my inst. "So the path to one of my folders and one of the files in it is this..."C:\PSP Stuff\PlugIns\Xenofex\Xenofex .exe" That was just to show you where one is. What I said in the next line in my above inst. was how you enable the path. That was this... Find the path to where you created your new plugin /filter FOLDER. Highlight it and then click OK at the box. Don't forget to close and re-open psp for the filters to take effect. About the .exe question. Most plug-in filters don't come with an executable file (.exe). If they do, then double click on it to install it, and make SURE that you direct it to install to the folder you want it in. Just read all the boxes carefully as they pop up before clicking next. But most don't have an exe file. You just extract the zip file to the folder it's in and that's it, as long as you have that folder enabled in psp. And about having one filter in your psp plug-in folder. That's okay. A few there won't hurt. But if you want to move it, just copy and paste them all to the new folder, then delete it out of the psp folder AFTER you paste it in the new one. Or you can drag and drop it in the new one. I hope all of this helps hon! :·)) -:¦:- ) ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) ~Summer ((¸¸.·´ .·´ ( -:¦:- ((·:

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Nope I heard about it from a group I'm in too but really wasn't fussed enough to try it. I hated Version 10. I'm quite happy using PSP9 so will probably just stick with it. Sue :)