My "Adobe installer" is not running and "adobe application manager" will not update....

My question?

When did making art get so technical? Also, have the software engineers at Adobe finally  begun to shed the Cheetos from their beards and then crown themselves as artists extraordinaire? Well good for them! Bad for me! No offense, but I've  been wrestling with this for quite a while. Without a single Cheeto.....

Could somebody at least tell me that this problem is mostly imaginary? I can relate to that actually, one time in Santa Cruz...

Bridge crashes frequently, especially during a drag and drop action. Photoshop crashes less frequently, but when even a mere moment's worth of my eternal genius has been shed, all life weeps, including you...unknowingly...

I was then instructed by the Adobe to perform a strange ritual using an ancient language called the "DOS" and to inquire for the Adobe of the little known " fsutil file setshortname" routine. Then the Adobe would know my true name, and where my short paths were (?).I tried very hard to comply with the demands of the Adobelites who lounged in the Cloud but fled to this place for counsel./

This is all true. My mother said so.

Thanks, and with much too much time on his hands,

Erich

• Operating System: Windows Vista 64-bit
• Version: 6.0 Service Pack 1
• Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.4 (12.0.4x20110407 [20110407.r.1265 2011/04/07:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64
• Architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:10, Stepping:0 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
• Physical processor count: 6
• Processor speed: 2593 MHz
• Built-in memory: 8191 MB
• Free memory: 1109 MB
• Memory available to Photoshop: 7173 MB
• Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
• Image tile size: 132K
• Image cache levels: 4
• Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 5450