What version of Vista are you running? I'd be curious to know, because the program WOULD NOT LOAD, until I turned it back to XP compatibility. And she is running Pro Ultimate on the laptop. She's also had problems loading other programs that STATE that they will run on vista. Her build is the latest release.
And what do you use photoshop for? Do you do high end graphics that you encapsulate the vectors and fonts for a printer?
I still think that Microsoft holds the responsibility for this mess, because its their op system that is causing the issues. And the companies are refusing to create the patches, because it is such a mess.
Sad thing is, I can't escape using Microsoft, because all of my clients are MS based, or I'd have switched to Mac a long time ago. And we all know that Microsoft stuff on a mac is waaayyyyyy behind the current pc based stuff.
Microsoft Vista: Piece of crap
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It is a spare. I am using a older p4 with a wireless lan in the garage. I do all my experiments with this one.
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Go LINUX GO!!! LOL I've been waiting for 6 years for a Linux system here.
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The thing is, you can use XP forever. You don't need Microsoft to say it's okay, just keep using it. I've never ever called Microsoft or used their help anyway so who cares if they "officially" support it or not?
I use Vista Ultimate and I use Photoshop just to play with photos, not to do anything high end. I don't "do" graphics at all - I don't know enough to do that.
I also haven't installed any updates since the day I got my laptop with Vista on it. I find updates just make things worse so maybe some of the updates she has on it kept it from being able to be installed. I also know how to turn off a ton of services to "shut up" Microsoft "junk" so I'm sure that helps, too.
I'd just go back to XP if I were her and you - most people who hate Vista have done so and are now quite happy
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LOL I would love to do that, but she is also taking college classes and has to have Vista for that. She's got some programs that she has to use for them. If I had the extra Bucks laying around, I'd just buy another laptop, wipe it clean and load XP. But that's not going to happen.
I will, however be purchasing the CS3 version of photoshop, because one printer that I deal with, will no longer take anything older. So the upgrade is coming. I just get sick of my profit margin being eaten up by upgrades. KWIM??? It would be nice to have some extra money for new equipment in the budget, instead of upgrades to keep up with op systems.
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I believe now that Mac's are using Intel chips which now have EM64T,Amd does also. Windows is losing its edge.
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