Photoshop Elements 5 & Vista

SF Bay'er · External Since: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 4

I have seen a few posts that say that Photoshop Elements 5 runs slowly on
their Vista PC. Is this a common problem?

I have an HP Pavilion a1747c which has an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core
Processor and an integrated video card, but the card has 512MB of dedicated
memory. I have added memory so that it has 2GB RAM. I am running Vista Home
Premium.

Any guesses as to whether I will be happy with the way Elements 5 runs on my
PC?

Thanks.
Tom

Adam Albright · External Since: Feb 03, 2007 Posts: 2515

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:56:15 -0700, "SF Bay'er"
<not_a_real_address.TakeThisOut@aohell.us> wrote:

>I have seen a few posts that say that Photoshop Elements 5 runs slowly on
>their Vista PC. Is this a common problem?

What exactly are others saying when they say Elements 5 runs slow? I
can run half a dozen high end applications including Photoshop all at
once and Vista doesn't slow them down at all. I only have 2 GB of RAM
myself.

Being curious I did a little research on Elements 5 and noticed this
disclaimer on several sites that sell this product:

"Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Home Edition,
Media Center Edition with SP2 and Vista*

*Vista users need to download an update patch from Adobe when they
install."

I then found this:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3569

Since Adobe offers a free trial I would download and see for yourself
if it is slow or not on your system.

SF Bay'er · External Since: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 4

When I looked at the support pages for Adobe products regarding Elements 5,
it stated that the trial version of Elements 5 does not work on Vista.

A quote from another newsgroups: "I've bailed on Digital Image Suite.
Currently, I've returned to Adobe Elements, a program agonizingly slow
compared to DIS or PSP, but a program I feel reasonably assured will be
around for the next several years."

Admittedly the person could be runningPE5 on an old Apple II+ (well, maybe
that goes back to far).

I did not see the patch you referenced on the Adobe pages, in fact I noticed
that there was no reference to PE5 reunning on Vista at all. It was not
listed as one of the supported operating systems. Seems strange that they
would be so far behind in supporting Vista.

Tom

"Adam Albright" <AA.RemoveThis@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:1aafb3573vp38ph6q06vtpfa9naps5j8br@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:56:15 -0700, "SF Bay'er"
> <not_a_real_address.RemoveThis@aohell.us> wrote:
>
>>I have seen a few posts that say that Photoshop Elements 5 runs slowly on
>>their Vista PC. Is this a common problem?
>
> What exactly are others saying when they say Elements 5 runs slow? I
> can run half a dozen high end applications including Photoshop all at
> once and Vista doesn't slow them down at all. I only have 2 GB of RAM
> myself.
>
> Being curious I did a little research on Elements 5 and noticed this
> disclaimer on several sites that sell this product:
>
> "Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Home Edition,
> Media Center Edition with SP2 and Vista*
>
> *Vista users need to download an update patch from Adobe when they
> install."
>
> I then found this:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3569
>
> Since Adobe offers a free trial I would download and see for yourself
> if it is slow or not on your system.
>

SF Bay'er · External Since: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 4

I went back to the adobe pages and it did reference the vista patch. I must
have been sleeping earlier today.
Tom

"Adam Albright" <AA DeleteThis @ABC.net> wrote in message
news:1aafb3573vp38ph6q06vtpfa9naps5j8br@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:56:15 -0700, "SF Bay'er"
> <not_a_real_address DeleteThis @aohell.us> wrote:
>
>>I have seen a few posts that say that Photoshop Elements 5 runs slowly on
>>their Vista PC. Is this a common problem?
>
> What exactly are others saying when they say Elements 5 runs slow? I
> can run half a dozen high end applications including Photoshop all at
> once and Vista doesn't slow them down at all. I only have 2 GB of RAM
> myself.
>
> Being curious I did a little research on Elements 5 and noticed this
> disclaimer on several sites that sell this product:
>
> "Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Home Edition,
> Media Center Edition with SP2 and Vista*
>
> *Vista users need to download an update patch from Adobe when they
> install."
>
> I then found this:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3569
>
> Since Adobe offers a free trial I would download and see for yourself
> if it is slow or not on your system.
>

SF Bay'er · External Since: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 4

I downloaded the trial version of Elements 5 and installed it. Then I tried
to install the patch for Vista, the "patch" said it couldn't find Elements 5
and didn't install. I tried running the trial version with outthe patch, it
started up and then terminated itself. So it looks like I can't try it
without buying it first.

The price isn't too bad, it's $79.95 at Amazon, no tax, no shipping. Then
there is a $20 rebate if you have some other software for photo editing
(they even count Google's Picassa which is a freebie) so the total price is
$59.95.

Tom