My new computer will not open Lightroom Classic? Can not open Lightroom creative cloud either?

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"Used Lightroom for at least 14 years" - So Lightroom-CLASSIC v12.2.1 is the App you need!

"Creative Cloud" is only the method to licence and install your Adobe Apps using the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App.

To obtain Lightroom-CLASSIC  you MUST have the PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN (20GB  us$9.99)  (And NOT the Lightroom Plan.!)

Your 'old' Lightroom Versions 1-6 catalog/s will simply upgrade when you 'Open' them with Lightroom-CLASSIC.

In this link https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html when you click the [Buy] button- look for-

And as for old computer to new computer, and why LrC appears to not be accomplishing what you want.

Is your issue one where LrC on the new computer is not bringing up your old catalog, your old photos?

Or can you clarify what is not working.

Application name FUBAR

The confusion about the various applications, the use or non use of CC, and the use of words like classic, desktop, ecosystem, cloudy. Are all Adobe marketing faults.

The original application, at one time called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, then Adobe Lightroom, or just Lightroom, migrated to lightroom CC when Adobe stopped selling it on a CD, and moved selling to the cloud, the creative cloud. When they still called it Lightroom CC they decided to pull the mobile media component out of it, and created a product meant for the smartphone set, a cloud based version (as in keeping images and a album on the cloud). Marketing genius's (not) named the new product Lightroom. Opps, what about the old computer based (photos and catalog on the computer), ah that became Lightroom Classic. (I have skipped/forgot a few steps, a few names)

So we had Lightroom, now we have Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic. We no longer have CC. 

Oh, and now Adobe refers to the two products as Lightroom Ecosystem (Cloud Based) And Lightroom Classic. This product has the icon Lr

And the Lightroom Ecosystem (Cloud Based) moniker also refers to various mobile media spin-offs. Adobe sometimes refers this Lightroom as Lightroom Desktop (just to confuse us?). Many members refer to it as Lightroom Cloudy, Some of us old farts refer to it as LrPOS.

The old perpetual Lightroom, that for a time was Lightroom CC, is now Lightroom Classic, icon LrC.

If you look at Adobe for one of the subscription plans, you will see a Lightroom Plan. That one leads many into paying for the wrong plan. It only includes Lightroom Desktop a.k.a. Cloudy, a.k.a Lightroom Ecosystem.

If you look at Adobe for a Lightroom Classic only plan, you will find none. Instead look at the Photography Plan (PS, Lr, LrC, Bridge, ACR)

Thanks.. at this point I thought I was using CC with the new compter...but as I see I never had either one of them work at this time.  I was trying to hopefully  use what most of the photographers preferred.  Seems now they preferred CC.. and I still don't know which is which with all the C's involved.  Today I see that they are calling Classic as so Classic CC , but when I saw one was listed as Creative Cloud..then I was assured that now this must be CC with a name like Creative Cloud.... other places I see Lightroom listed as a choice, then the others are either called Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic.. which some call this latter one Classic to also be CC?     I'm not good with plan English, not sure what to do with 2 choices sometimes called or referred to with both names?     I'm so out of touch with what I can do. I've had Photoshop leave me waiting on the phone for 3 hours, when they said at first it may take 45 min. Then 3 hours later they disconnected. ?   So what in the world choices do we have now?  Do I have to give up on Lightroom after 14 years of use??  Geez?  

1. Do you still have the old computer, and is Lightroom still on it? If so, launch Lightroom, click on Help, click on System Info, copy the first 5 lines, and paste into a reply. Looking to verify what application, and what version you are coming from.

2. In your new computer, accomplish the same thing, copy and paste the similar info into your reply. Looking to confirm actual app and version.

I did see a choice of windows so I clicked on that where they had listed 3 or 4 words.. I did not know anything else to click on but the windows name... so that's what I had attmepted to do when I was writing about my concerns. Thanks  Using a new Best Buy Geek Squad computer designed for photographers   I have windows 11, but I'm still using the windows 10 at this time as this new computer came with a need for me to purchase W. 11. ?    Thanks for trying to assist... I saw where some people were saying to go to the app store and buy your creative cloud app.... not to use the one from Microsoft.  I know very little about any aspect of a computer.  Not even sure where my programs are to remove my Lightroom products... as some say go to the store and get it from there.. But some are showing all sorts of things like how to remove Creative Cloud.  Everything muddies the water with so many opinions...  Simply out of business at this time.  Because of Lightroom problems and my inabiltiy to know how to escape from these issues. ?  Jack

As you can see I never am sure about the two names. Most of the time when someone is writing about these 2 versions...they either call one 'Lightroom', and the other Classic.   With the two C's in creative cloud LR... you would think that would be CC, but they too call Classic CC???  It remains confusing when references are not always clear?