Photoshop Elements 4: The Missing Manual

Appendix C. Installation and Troubleshooting

Elements is quite easy to install and is pretty trouble free once you're up and running. This appendix explains a couple of things you can do to ensure that your installation goes smoothly, and also provides cures for most of the little glitches that can crop up once you're using the program.

Installing Elements

Before you install Elements, it helps to make sure your PC is ready to receive its newest arrival.

First of all, if your computer is on a network, take it off the network temporarily. (You can go back on as soon as you've installed Elements.) Also, it's important to disable any antivirus software as well as any products from Symantec, including Norton Anti-Virus (which tends to quarrel with Adobe software during installation). You can turn any of these programs back on as soon as you've finished the installation.

Also, you need to install Elements when logged into an administrative account on your computer. (If you've never done anything to change your account and you only have one account on your machine, it's almost certainly an administrative account.)

Note

If you already have a previous version of Elements, there's no need to remove it before installing Elements 4. All versions of Elements run as separate programs, and you can keep the older version, too, if you want.

However, if you decide to uninstall an earlier version after installing Elements 4, you may find that you lose the Adobe Gamma Utility (see Section 7.2.1.1) in the ...