I don't know what was wrong with my program, but i had the same problem of the brushes bar not showing, and when i tried starting painter x with the shift key pressed, it would just crash.

i had version 10.046, then i upgraded to version 10.1, and now it works perfectly; i was able to reset the workspace to get the brushes bar back. and as an added plus, my help files which were previously not working now work fine. if you're having bugs and you're using the older version of painter x, you can download the 10.1 upgrade for free off corel's website:

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satelli...=1180967103899