Photoshop CS Windows Vista Issues

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Austin_Zheng
Feb 1, 2007
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Hello.

I own Photoshop CS (8.0). I recently upgraded from XP Professional to Vista, and was required to re-install Photoshop. However, Photoshop does something strange now.

Whenever I run Photoshop, I am prompted to activate the software because it thinks my system configuration has changed. If I am running with Admin privileges, it will activate and I can use it (but I have to do this *every time* I open the program). If I am not, it will crash right after activating.

I have tried running both installer and Photoshop using Admin mode in order to remedy the problem, but to no avail. Do any of you have any advice you could offer to help me resolve this problem? Thanks so much, I really appreciate it.
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Bob Levine
Feb 1, 2007
First question.

Upgraded how? Clean install? New machine? In place upgrade?

Second question…Full system specs please.

Bob
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Charlie_Choc
Feb 1, 2007
Try turning off UAC, run and register PS, and then turn UAC back on. That worked for me with CS2 on Vista anyway
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Bob Levine
Feb 1, 2007
Charlie,

The question was about activation, not registration.

I’ll be curious to see if that does make a difference. Hopefully the OP wil report back.

Bob
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Charlie_Choc
Feb 1, 2007
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:06:40 -0800, Bob Levine wrote:

The question was about activation, not registration.

OK. I activated my copy with UAC off, too. FWIW
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Austin_Zheng
Feb 1, 2007
So, I completely turned off UAC, restarted, and then opened Photoshop. No error message, everything worked as intended. I turned UAC back on, and everything seems to be fine now. So I guess UAC and ‘Run As Administrator’ aren’t completely equivalent after all.

Also, even after turning UAC back on, the program has to be run as an administrator each time, otherwise the whole UAC process needs to be done again. But that’s a very minor thing.

Thanks so much, everyone who replied. I really appreciate it!
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david_licht
Feb 1, 2007
HI-I am new to windows. Could you tell me what UAC is and how to control it so I can run CS1? Thanks
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John Joslin
Feb 2, 2007
User Account Control, a security feature introduced in Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system.

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