Good morning,
Let's take a few looks at some things.
Depending when Qimage actually shuts down, let's check your printer to see if it is working, and recognized.
If Qimage sees a corrupted driver it could quit.

When you installed, or when you downloaded, was your Anti virus program on and checking the download or the installation process?
Some aggressive virus or Malware or even programs that call themselves security software can shred the install file or the operational exe file.

So, you can shut down teh anti virus for 10 minutes and download a fresh copy of Qimage and install. Check to see what printer Qimage sees by looking in Printer setup from Qimage.
See if that is in working order and you have a proper driver installed.
Don't count of the built in fits-all driver built into Windows for every brand of printer.

Some things to look at.
What version of Qimage, and what printer?

Fred

Since it happens so quickly, I would suspect that there might be a printer driver problem.
That's the first thing that Qimage looks for.
Do you have more than one printer?
Can you uninstall the printer driver, try Qimage, see what happens, and reinstall it?

When you say you bought a "cheap" replacement, does it have enough memory to run Qimage/

Otherwise, I can't think o anything that would cause the inability to open Qimage other than what I mentioned.
If you look in Device manager, does any deice show a yellow warning triangle?
Maybe someone else has an idea.

Fred

I just downloaded and installed the 1400 driver for W7 64.
Set the 1400 as the printer to remember for Qimage Ultimate, and there's no problem. Qimage Ultimate opens and runs normally.
I will have to wait for someone to have a fresh approach.

Fred

Right installed the driver for another printer I have, a Canon ip460. Removed and reinstalled QIMAGE and guess what!  Same negative result.
So in my opinion it isn't the printer driver, it's Qimage!
Any bugs with the latest version?

By the way both printers work well if I use another programme.
Time to go to work.

Have a good day.

jOhn

John,
Just woke up here.
I see Brian is here too, and I was about to ask if you actually uninstalled Qimage, and as Brian says, get rid of all Qimage related folders.
You mention re-installing, but no uninstalling.

Fred

Hold the shift key before you start Qimage Ultimate and keep holding it until QU starts: that will reset any old/bad settings.  See if you can get in that way.  If so, close and restart normally.  It should be cleared and should start normally.  If not, you have a system problem.  To help diagnose that, after it has crashed, start it again but this time hold both the Ctrl and Shift keys while you start it.  You'll get a diagnostic code.  Just let me know what the code is and that might help me track down where the problem is occurring.

Thanks,
Mike

I suspect it is some type of system problem (some part of Windows not working as it should), but in an attempt to narrow it down, I created a beta 2012.101 and put it at the link below.  Just use the same username/password that you used for 2012.100:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage-u/v2012.100/qu12-101a.exe

Please download and install.  The software is the same except that I updated the diagnostic to be more specific.  So after you install, run it normally and let it crash.  Then start it after the crash with the Ctrl and Shift keys held.  You should get a different (and more useful to me) diagnostic message such as "11a" or "11p" or something like that.

Thanks,
Mike