I have been a Photoshop and PSP user for awhile but recently downloaded the 15 Day Trial of Xara Xtreme to have a look around. I've played many of the videos and gone through a few tutorials and like what I see. So far everything appears to be in order and working fine with one exception. When I click on any of my .JPGs with an Xara icon, I receive the following message:

"Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine. Gaithering required information."

Each time I click on another photo it takes nearly 10 minutes to gather this information before my image appears on the edit screen. I've downloaded and installed the trial software several times on a clean computer but it continues to bring up that same SQL Server message and another long wait.

I was hoping someone could make a suggestion as what may be causing this or what I am doing wrong.

Many thanks,

John