Oh YES Bill that Photoshop 32/64 bit stuff is exasperating!! I use PS a lot & find my 64bit machine takes ages to process videos & photos I’ve created. Like the laptop wants the software to be in 64 bit. I installed from a purchased Adobe disc & at the time I had no choice in speed. But it’s hard knowing I have this fast machine but the processing seems to take forever sometimes when I feel it should fly through.

Hi Tony2,

First make sure your system meets the requirements:

Supported Operating System

Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Computer/ Processor: Computer with a 233MHz processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)
Memory: 512MB
Hard Drive Space:70MB
Display: Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors.
Peripherals: Modem or Internet connection; Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device.
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If so, you can try installing manually instead of through Windows Update.

The download link for the 32-bit IE11 browser for Windows 7 is: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40902

If the update failed via Windows Update, try to uninstall that corrupted version first, Then do the install manually. That is, download it; run it.

64-bit versions of any program will not work on 32-bit systems.
32-bit programs will work on 64-bit systems, however.

Hope this helps,
Richard

windows 64 machines still play anything 32bit, just play them as normal

interesting, because I have been using waterfox for a few months now, have no problem. I think the problem you face is you don’t really understand what you are doing. Waterfox is not meant to be different to firefox, it is simply a 64bit port of it.

Thanks for the heads up, Ryder!

Howdy mindblower,

I use an external drive as a temporary backup holding pen. This gets updated from the daily backups on my computer a couple of times a week.

Once a month, I copy my most recent backups to the DVD’s.

The external HDD is, after all, just another mechanical device and it can break at anytime just like any other hard drive. You can not rely on its integrity any more than you can the drive installed in our computer. Once you have a backup stored on a DVD it’s basically etched in stone (plastic), so to speak.

If you happen to have some really critical data that you simply cannot afford to lose then it’s a good idea to keep some backups off-site as well.

The saying goes, “If you have only one backup, you have no backup.”

Hope this helps,
Richard

Bill.
If you let the Adobe install routine extract the files and then stop the install you can generally go the to extracted folder and find a 32bit folder with a setup.exe file so you can install the 32bit version directly – at least I’ve had good luck with CS5.

Since my computer is fast enough with its SSD driver I uninstalled Photoshop and tried to install just the 32 bit version but it wouldn’t let me. Since it detected I was a 64 bit machine, it forced me to install the 64 bit version.

As a developer it has been a nightmare to support 64 bit users. Even if I did a native 64 bit version I would still have to include special routines since Windows x64 automatically redirects some registry calls to the WOW6432 tree and it redirects some file functions to the Program Files (x32) folder.
Many of these redirections make no sense. I can only assume the Office group needed these changes so the Windows group added them.

Bill

Boy! are you ever right about the archaic CD/DVD’s. I never thought they were such a great medium to begin with. they scratch easily and get smudged. They’re susceptible to sunlight and flexing. Drop one on a gritty floor and hope it’s still playable.

You could throw one of the old 3.5 inch floppies across the room and it would most likely still work.

Perhaps the only real durable medium we have now to replace them is the thumb drive? I’m kind of surprised that vendors have not gone in that direction. Perhaps there is a cost issue?