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I've got xp on my desktop, vista on my laptop. I don't like vista so would like 7 on my laptop and my legal copy of Photoshop (Photoshop 7) which is 32bit. I know that Photoshop 7 won't run on windows 7 so can I essentially put xp and windows 7 on the laptop? Hope that made sense
You could dual boot.
or you could run a virtual machine with XP on it
Thanks!
Windows 7 and [url= http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx ]XP Mode[/url]
If you don't like Vista, why are you considering 7? It's not all that different.
Not that I'm saying don't do it, it depends what you don't like about Vista. If you don't like the interface / GUI, that's not changed much. If you don't like UAC and such, that has.
Is upgrading your (legit) copy of Photoshop to a 7-compatible version not an option?
I don't like vista as it crashes all too often, I'm told 7 is more stable? I'm told my Photoshop is 32bit so I can't upgrade to the new 64bit versions. To be honest all the features I need and use are in 7, I know it's old but it works for me. I think buying a newer version I would still be stuck with vista and it's unreliability
Windows 7 and XP Mode
Be careful relying on that, if your laptop doesn't have hardware assisted virtualisation then it ain't gonna work! Other virtual machine stuff still will though so it's not that big a loss 🙂
I've just a look, and it seems you can run Photoshop 7 on Windows 7.
e.g
[url= http://tinyurl.com/33vyp4m ] DPreview[/url]
[url= http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproappcompat/thread/0a30ee00-2a62-47e2-9c3f-c0f79c8b0ecb ]Microsoft technet[/url]
If Vista is crashing, that's probably due to other issues (hardware faults, dodgy third party drivers etc) rather than an inherent "Vista is unstable" problem. I ran Vista for two years, the only time it crashed was when my hard disk went titsup.com (and then it crashed a [i]lot[/i]). Windows 7 -might- help, but I wouldn't immediately cite it as a reason to upgrade in that instance.
Dunno about upgrade paths for Photoshop TBH, but I'm struggling to see any sensible reason why an application would fail to run on Windows 7 if it works on Vista. I can see why it wouldn't run on a [i]64-bit [/i]version of Windows 7 (it's probably a 16-bit installer for a start, which would be a showstopper), but 32-bit W7 should be fine. Assuming it's working fine currently for you under Vista, I'll be shocked if it fails under W7.