OMFG! She Killed Hikaru!
Rants and Raves, Tech - 6 Comments » - Posted on March, 2 at 7:17 pm
Apparently Windows Vista does not like Adobe Photoshop CS2. I installed it last night, it was working fine, I go to start up the computer today and it won’t start. Ran the repair program that it comes with and Windows could not fix the problem. Since the only thing I did differently was to install Adobe Photoshop on the laptop, that’s the only thing it could be.
Unfortunately, I never made backups so I can’t do a system restore to a period of time before I installed the software. I could restore it to the brand new settings but then I would loose everything on my laptop All of my media, business, and even some personal stuff I’d rather not loose will be gone. 
My mom tried to take a look at it for me, but she’s not familiar with Vista’s OS and gave up after a while saying she’d rather not touch it.
So tomorrow she’s calling a friend of her’s to see if he can help. We know what the problem has to be at least, but right now we don’t know how to undo it without loosing everything.
I have the warranty on the laptop and I could take it up to Office Depot to have them work on it, I’m sure they could remove Photoshop for me without loosing everything. Except there’s one big problem, it’s a crack version. Yeah, I don’t exactly want to have them see that. 
Anybody with some experiance handling Vista have any suggestions?
ETA: Okay, it’s fixed! My mother didn’t want to give up, so we tried to bring it up in safe mode. As soon as the computer came on she hit alt+ctrl+del but surprisingly enough, instead of safe mode the computer came up normally and eveything was still there and working fine. 
So I went in and uninstalled Adobe Photoshop completely and then shut down the computer. I brought it back up and now it started up perfectly. Looks like Photoshop was the culprit. *sigh* I was so happy to have Photoshop on the laptop too. ;_; But it looks like I’m going to have to install CS3 or nothing on the laptop.
This does raise an interesting question though. Despite not making back up discs, I should have been able to restore the settings to a previous point in time since I am using the laptop, I have files saved, and programs saving files within. But when we tried to restore it to a point the computer threw up the message that there were no points to restore it to. Nothing. What The Hell, Vista?!
Lesson learned, backup discs are your best friend Joana. Don’t trust you can restore it to a previous point in time.
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My computer says the same thing if I try to do a system restore, and I have XP. It’s really annoying, especially since my computer takes way too many CDs to backup. LOL
Yikes yikes yikes, that could have been awful. But I’m glad you and your Mom were able to fix it. Wow, vista is really sucky.
I actually run Photoshop CS2 on Vista and it works just fine for me. So, it must be because you used a cracked version.
I’m glad you learned your lesson! Making frequent backups will save you one day. I learned that years ago when I was told everything on my hard drive couldn’t be recovered. Those were the days when all you had were floppies!
Alisha,
Looks like we were both wrong. CS2 will run on Vista, however the reason mine was goofing up is not because it was a cracked version. It was just my bad luck that it chose to check the registration and what not when there was no internet connection. -_- Apparently there is a flaw in CS2, and it is actually worse in CS although I haven’t heard anything about it appearing again in CS3, with the License Management. The error is especially prone in laptops too. When you’re not hooked up to the internet or modem if the programs checks for the licenses and activation and cannot access the internet to properly do this it creates an error and locks you out. When I’m at home I don’t use the internet on my laptop. The desktop has always been connected online, so I never noticed this problem before with CS2.
So I’m guessing, that because of the error it generates and locking me out, the error actually reacted differently with Vista than it does with XP and Vista opted to try and repair the problem before letting the computer boot up fully.
This does seem to be have been the problem, since when I looked at the generated report after Vista ran it’s check, it showed a License error and said unable to read. It didn’t specify where, but knowing, it makes sense now.
Thank god your problem solved.
I am using XP SP2 , whenever I face any problem I just restore my system to a previous point. it is quite handy.
Will Spencer,
Yes it is very handy and it’s saved my desktop many a time too. But for some odd reason, it’s not doing it on my laptop. GO figure. Just gotta remember to make back up discs now. *sigh*