Monday, January 12, 2009

Windows 7 & Adobe Premier Elements 4

Yes I installed Windows 7 and for the most part I really like it. The only problems I've been having are the occasional issue with installing some applications that do a OS version check before allowing the install to go through.

One such application is "Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0" which I bought for my Windows XP system that I just blew away in favor of Windows 7. Installing it proved to be a bit of a challenge, only because I'm used to things just working with XP.

The solution is not to use Adobe's autorun installer, rather to explore the disk and run the .msi installer version instead. That seems to bypass the stupid version checker that Adobe built in.

So there you go, hopefully someone out there will find this useful.