Vista Tutorial - Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4

I have been looking for a work-around for this problem and Adobe was of no help. How you ever found this solution is just amazing. I followed your directions "davey" and it worked perfectly. I have Vista Ultimate 64 with SP 1 and I thought I just lost a lot of money after bying these programs. Again, thanks so much!

Glad to be of help. Thanks for your kind words.

In answer to your quastion, after 8 hours on-line, spread over 2 days. It
was a headache I thought I could help others to avoid.

"RDeFilippi" wrote:

Gents -- with my new Vista x64 machine I'm narrowing my choices down for video and photo editing software. I'm partial to Adobe Photoshop Elements (v.4 on old XP machine) and have dabbled with Premiere Elements v.2 a few years ago on the same XP box. So I'm really wanting for the Adobe Package of Premiere 4.0 and PE 6.0 to work reliably on this new computer.

1. With the Davey's fix, do you both feel they are stable and run well (albeit in 32-bit mode)?

2. Are you happy with the Premiere 4.0 (more subjective question, I know)? I want to occasionally create/edit 30-45+ minute videos, so stability and function are paramount.

Any other comments from your experience will be much appreciated. Any other info resources about product on Vista will also be welcomed. Sure hope Adobe & others will release true x64 versions in near future.

Thanks.

Just spent a lot of time trying to get Photoshop elements 6 to work on vista 64 - after many hours and calling technical support at adobe I was informed that Photoshop Elements 6 will not work on Vista 64. He said according to the manual in front of him, it works on vista 32 but not vista 64. Sorry there is nothing we can do to help. Maybe someone other than us has figured out a solution. Bryan Lonski November 08

It appears that when Adobe issues a new release of the PDF reader, it "disables" Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. In other words they don't load. When I reapply Davey's "fix" they work again. This is interesting since I just upgraded to version 9 of the reader and applied the fix for version 8.

Dcat, they both run stable once they are actually running but as mentioned above you need to reapply the fix if you upgrade the reader. And yes I am happy with the programs. I would also look into GIMP 2.6.1 (FREE) which is open source and works just fine with Vista 64.

Bryan, the fix works fine with the caveat as outlined above. Try GIMP if you still can't get it working.

Bob

Hi,
I had the same problem but I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 running vista home premium 32bit with Photoshop elements 6 installed on it. Up until a day ago it was running just fine. But this morning when I tried to open elements I got the message "Licensing for this product . . . "

So I called adobe tech support and spoke with this great tech guy. He walked me through the fix. My elements is running fine once again. Here is what he had me do:

Open by clicking on Start - Computer - C Drive -Program Files - Common Files - Adobe - Adobe PCD - cache

Right click on cache and copy

open desktop and right click on desktop and click on paste.

Cache will appear on desktop and disappear from Adobe PCD folder.

Start adobe photoshop elements and you will get the registration screen. Enter your serial number and then the program opens and your are back in business!

Sue