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October 26, 2025
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Photoshop Elements 2026 and Windows 11 compatibility issues.

  • October 26, 2025
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Since uploading Elements 2026 and upgrading to  Windows 11 I am having a difficult time loading my photos in Elements for editing. It is not so much that my raw files do not load, but that once I have made my initial edits in raw, I cannot quickly open them into the app for further edits. Even one photo file can take minutes to load and trying to load multiple photos at a time causes the system to stall or crash completely. My PC system capabilities (RAM, storage, etc) all seem consistent with Elements 2026 requirements. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem with this or an earlier version of Elements? I previously was using Elements 2020 with Windows 10 and never had an issue. Can't figure out if the problem is with Adobe or Windows 11.

Thanks.

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larryj60504915
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November 2, 2025

My Photoshop Elements  takes 4 to 5 minutes to load the photo editing page, on 2 separate Windows 11 computers, if it opens then. Both computers always ran PSE great. This happened just recently to PSE 2023 on one, and PSE 2024 on the other. I bought and installed PSE 2026 and it does the same exact thing. Could it be recent Windows 11 updates causing the problem?