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Purchased and installed now twice Affinity Photo v 1.7.3.481 on Windows 10 notebook, with same disappointing result: As soon as I open an image file, the box in the right hand top appears 'Loading 1 Document ...' and then nothing happens until several minutes later either the program closes and returns to the desktop screen, or it crashes altogether to a black screen, and I have to turn off manually with the power button. - I have noticed also that some image files will indeed open, especially if they are sitting directly on the desktop, without accessing any other folders. But it has also happened that they didn't open. So, it seems unpredictable which one opens and which one crashes the system. This is on a Windows 10 notebook, i7, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia graphics, and two 256GB SSDs. Alternatively, I could install Affinity Photo on my Windows 7 notebook, but it looks like it requires a 'Theme' to run, however I do not wish to do this. Is there a workaround to this 'Theme' requirement? Thank you for any help you can provide with this.