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Installing Photoshop 7 on Windows xp

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by rdmenquiry

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I'm having problems installing Photoshop 7 on my computer. It's a new computer, Lenova with Windows XP Home Edition. After placing the Photoshop CD in the CD/DVD drive and when it first starts to install, it suddendly stops, the hour glass from the cursor vanishes without any error messages at all. I've also tried to install the setup files manually through 'my computer....'. Has anyone had this problem or can anyone help?

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by donaldcoe

Lack of Microsoft Service Packs and Windows Genuine can cause many applications not to install, also with XP you need to have Administrator rights, I know it sounds strange when it is your own machine but we all forget to check for the rights.

by zyw

I have had the exact same problem with installing PS7 on my 3-week-old XP Pro machine. It will show the installation process going up to 99%, then it stalls and the installation window vanishes. I had tried this a dozen times, installing from the disk.

Then I tried copying the contents of the installation disk onto my hard drive and right clicking on the setup file and then installing from there- I get the same results with the vanishing installation window etc. But after trying this method (installing from the hard drive) several times- it finally worked! Now I've got PS7 installed on my new machine and it works fine - I'm not sure what did it but it is definitely something you could try out. Sorry if this was a pretty low-tech way of approaching the problem- just telling you what worked for me. Good luck with the next install attempt.

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