Photoshop CS2 fails activation in Vista RC1

[Guest]

Photoshop ran fine in Beta 2. Now in RC1, the activation fails to start up
and produces error: "You are not allowed to continue because your account
does not have administrator privileges..."

I am using "Run as administrator" to run photoshop.

Suggestions? This is new in RC1.

I'm an old timer, so I can deal with this. I'm wondering hwo much consumers
would freak out. All the people I've helped for years would all want to go
back to WinXP after a few minutes with UAC! Their Mac friends aren't going
through this. Microsoft, it's getting way to complicated.

Erol

 

[Rock]

Photoshop ran fine in Beta 2. Now in RC1, the activation fails to start up
and produces error: "You are not allowed to continue because your account
does not have administrator privileges..."

I am using "Run as administrator" to run photoshop.

Suggestions? This is new in RC1.

I'm an old timer, so I can deal with this. I'm wondering hwo much
consumers
would freak out. All the people I've helped for years would all want to go
back to WinXP after a few minutes with UAC! Their Mac friends aren't going
through this. Microsoft, it's getting way to complicated.

Erol

What if you try it from the built in Administrator account?

 

[Guest]

turn off uac

 

[Guest]

turn off uac

 

[Guest]

Thanks folks!

I googled an article about a registry entry that will show Administrator
along with my standard login. Installed from admin. No back at standard user,
works perfectly.

Yes, turn off UAC, so it works like XP or a Mac, that would be the idea. LOL

Is UAC the real reason Bill retired? ;-) There must be a way to improve this
for consumers or I fear Windows Vista not being accepted. Ug! Please listen
to our feedback MS.

 

[chris]

Just an fyi, i had the same problem. But when i drilled down to the actual exe and did the right-click "run as administrator", the activation dialogue actually ran for me.

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