Installing Photoshop Elements 2019 on a new pc keeps failing

When you get a new computer, update the OS, Anti-virus and get the latest graphics drivers from your card mfg's website.

>assumed that with a brand new laptop all the systems would be up to date so

For anyone else reading this...

When you buy a new computer the "master image" that is installed at the factory was made at a certain date, so the first thing you should do after getting Windows registered to your account is to do a check for updates

When a program install complains about a bad/missing DLL do the following

Go to the Search bar at the top of http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ to find and re-install the C runtime, or for ALL Windows help
-or direct to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-c-runtime-errors-products.html

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