Adobe states not to install windows 7 because, their products will not run and are not supported.

Are you installing the individual Adobe programs on Win7 from individual, standalone install, or did you install from a suite? The problem I am having is that I have an integrated suite of adobe products and the suite install fails - even by trying to install only one product from the suite on a Custom install - still fails.

Hi RT66WEST

    I assume this was a response to me - I did return my Dell Laptop for a full refund  since I could not get Vista to work on the Dell laptop that I had purchased - The first time the machine crashed was after a windows live update & before I put any software on the machine (3rd day I had the laptop) - the various Dell Tech support people all gave me the same answer when the machine would go into the repair wizard - restore the machine to factory defaults - I do think it's ridiculous that a windows live update would cause a crash -  when I asked them about the adobe software I was told by 4 different Dell tech support people that Vista did not support Adobe CS4 even though both companies websites stated that it did. It was because of the horrible tech support I got from Dell that I returned the laptop for a refund - I never tried to load Windows 7 on the machine because at that point I would not have been able to get a refund ( The microsoft support wasn't any better the response was it was Dell responsibility to get the software working since the laptop was under warrenty).

     As far as buying a mac I know I can get one for about $1300 (my wife uses macs & I use PC's so I know how they work & how much they cost no where near the 3K you quoted) - I would prefer to be able to use a PC since some of the things I want to do are not supported on a MAC or with Linux yet - so I am glad to read that you were able to get the Adobe software working on Windows 7 although your initial posting about Adobe not supporting it has really made me think about abandoning windows completely

     I will say after reading about a lot of the issues on this forum about Windows 7 I am going to keep my $$ a bit longer until Microsoft works out the issues since it seems to me that windows 7 is not stable yet (saw that 5 critical patches have already been released & have read about some manufacturers having issues with the machines that were shipped with 7)

Thanks

Thomas

I was talking with adobe support and it was the rep that stated not to run adobe software in windows 7.  I was worried of being locked out of my adobe suite. Which happened with a harddrive failure and CS3. I was not allowed to use CS3 for a period of 9 months. Where adobe seeing the lack of the software checking in for the 9 months finally agreed it was a harddrive failure and unlocked for just a single computer to use. Where everyone else gets two computer of use. It was such a bad experience I did not want to have it repeat itself with the installing of a new operating system. So I wrote for instructions to avoid any problems. They had not developed a policy regarding windows 7 and nothing to offer me. The support person only statement was to run the adobe software on any other operating system but windows 7. Which only added to my worries over getting locked out of legally purchased software.

I started reading all early reports covering windows 7 and downloaded the upgrade advisor to all my computers. In running the advisor there were no warnings as the adobe software not running or any known problems to be reported. I found a person who had been running windows 7 beta and they said there was not a problem in running adobe software. On Oct. 22 I downloaded two versions of windows 7, that were purchased in the early offering. One of the reports of windows 7 stated to try the upgrade path first, before doing a clean install. If any issues came up then do the clean install. 

I decided to do the 32-bit laptop first, since it did not require a clean install. If after the install of windows 7 home premium worked with my adobe suite. I could then do the other computer. I did deactivate the adobe software before trying the upgrade. After boot up of windows 7. I launched my CS4 suite to reactivate the software. I found windows 7 had done that for me. I also did not experience any issues. So, I moved to the 64-bit quad-core computer.

I was upgrading the windows 7 professional from vista and this required a clean install. Again I deactivated the adobe software and did a complete back-up of my vista system. After the clean install was completed I needed to reinstall the adobe suite. Once that was done and I did all the updating from both Microsoft and adobe. I tested the adobe software after the install. Everything seems to work just fine. I have experienced a few minnor glitches with adobe cs4 photoshop on the 64-bit computer. A few of the tools in the filter windows failed and I had to close then reopen photoshop to clear the problem. I think there is an issue with how windows 7 uses memory in 64-bit, that adobe will address on the new CS5 release due out in april or may of 2010. Otherwise there is nothing that stopped me from installing and running the adobe software on either platform. So, I worried for nothing. I so glad, I did not lose out on my purchases from both software companies, as it was reported going to happened, if I did the upgrading.

There were issues with vista itself and I did not want to use it any longer. Going back to Xp was out of the question, since you can not find it on the market and it was never ported to use 64-bit or a quad-core processor. vista was more like windows 98 and vista never ran right. It made using the laptop's dvd drive useless. Windows 7 corrected the problem itself and made the drive work again.  On the quad-core system everything runs faster and smoother than what vista could ever do. I feel the upgrade was worth doing to both systems and I care not to look back from making the change to windows 7. In the end it all worked out and I have 3 computers that can share files over my network, where in vista they could not even speak to each other. I love it when things work out right! Which was not my experience with vista or adobe CS3.