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1. Re: Will Photoshop 7.0 work under Windows 7?
Generally speaking, yes, but you may have to run it as Administrator or disable UAC to use all the features (e.g., droplets) fully.
Also, as I recall, Photoshop 7 and earlier don't work well with disks that have free space in excess of 1 TB.
Finally, even though you may have a 64 bit Windows 7, remember that Photoshop 7 is strictly a 32 bit application, and thus will always be limited to accessing somewhat less than 3 GB of RAM.
-Noel
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2. Re: Will Photoshop 7.0 work under Windows 7?
This Window site says Photoshop 7.0 is compatible with 64 bits and no action need to be taken but then one gets to vote on whether or not the information is accurate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Windows 7 has different versions. The Window 7 Professional has XP Mode to run XP based business software. I don't know exactly what that means. I guess it means it runs 32 bit applications?
PhotoRoy5 (could not sign on as PhotoRoy as the last time I was on forum was in 2006 and I couldn't remember the password from then when id
wasn't based on email address)
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3. Re: Will Photoshop 7.0 work under Windows 7?
XP mode is a virtualization process wherein a virtual copy of XP is run under Windows 7. You can often run older software that just won't run under Windows 7 directly using XP mode - but as I mentioned I don't think that's strictly necessary with Photoshop 7.0. I have a copy of Photoshop 6.0 running just fine directly on my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, not using XP mode. I don't have a copy of Photoshop 7.0, so I can't say I've personally run it, but I do know of folks who have.
-Noel
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5. Re: Will Photoshop 7.0 work under Windows 7?
To get Photoshop 7.0 (or 7.0.1 in my case) to work under Windows 7 64-bit, I ran the CD's Autorun under Windows XP service pack 2 compatibility. I also set the same compatibility prefs in Win 7 for the setup.exe file in the Photoshop directory of the CD-ROM.
You'll possibly encounter an error about the scratch disk being full - this is because PS 7 fails to understand big hard drives (the huge free space number looks like an empty disk, it's kinda like a Y2K problem, since PS7 programmers or the API writers never imagined so much free space, I guess). In this case, two things are important:
- You need a partition that's less than 1TB (not sure about the size, it's in another thread) for the scratch disk. I used my system's recovery partition (only 2GB free, however). Other advice I found was to create a scratch partition using Windows 7 partitioning. Maybe a USB key would work? Surely not very fast...
- PS 7 will fail on startup with the "scratch disk full" error and exit. To get PS 7 to allow you to specify it, hold down CTRL and ALT when the program is launching. You'll be given a chance to indicate the partitions.
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6. Re: Will Photoshop 7.0 work under Windows 7?
My laptop is also window 7 ultimate also, but I keep having dialog box appear "???? is not a valid adobe photoshop 7 serial number. Please re-enter your serial number."
I tried a couple times restarting my PC and reinstalling CD ROM. It still persisted same old errors. Please help me understand how window 7 works under PS 7.0.
