Steve,
Try to associate it manually… Right click on any image, choose Open With… Then pick Photoshop Elements. It should appear in the list after that.
Ray
That’s just the problem – it doesn’t! This is how I normally do it but Photoshop is simply not on the list.
When I installed it I was given the option something like ‘Please choose all the files that Photoshop Elements can open.’ I took this to mean that if I did this, PE would become the DEFAULT program for opening these files (which I don’t want – Windows Picture Viewer is better for this).
Should I have ticked the JPEG box at this point?
Thanks!
Run a search on the forum, I did post a solution for this (it involves modifying a key in the Windows registry which is now pointing to PE1 and should point to PE2). Unfortunately, it’s been several months, and I’m on a Mac now, so I don’t have access to the my win machine (not easily anyway)
Ray
I’ve just spent the last hour searching with all permutations of ‘Open With Registry Edit’ etc. to no avail. Can find similar items (such as right-click Open With… openeing PE but not the image) but not my problem!
Aaaaaarghhhh! Any ideas? I’m beginning to wish I stuck with v.1.0. Is there any way of mailing Adobe and asking them?
Coming from a Mac user this may sound really dumb, but what the heck. Have you restarted your computer since the installation? I was having a bear of a problem with the printer on our Win XP Pro machine. When I got mad, shut the thing down, cursed at it for five minutes, and then restarted, the problem went away. I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but…
Steve,
If you are on XP try the following. I just successfully added Irfanview to the open list this way.
Right Click the file in Explorer. Select Open With. Below the list of associated programs click Choose Program. In the window that opens look under Other Programs click on Elements. Be sure there is no check mark in "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file". Click OK.
The default will remain the same but Elements will now be in the Open With list.
Bob
Tried that but only PE 1.0 is listed. Browsing to 2.0 makes no differnce. Thanks anyway.
BUT I have managed to fix it! It appeared it was some kind of registry problem after all. When I uninstalled 1.0 the first time I remember being asked if I wanted to keep certain shared files. To be safe I said yes. So what I did to fix it was uninstall 2.0 completely, reinstall 1.0 again, uninstall 1.0 completely, making sure to delete ALL shared files when prompted, manually delete the program destination folder that was left then reinstall 2.0 – BINGO right-clicking an image now has PE 2.0 available on the Open With menu!
Thanks everyone for your help, anyway!
Ah Yes I have had similar probelms with Serif programs, everything has to be uninstalled it seems. HUmph to windows.
Now I use a MAc for most photo stuff.:-)
Cheers Shrilly
