Problem with installing Lightroom 6 on new PC

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July 15, 2025
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I have Lightroom 6 on CD-ROM with perpetual licence (2016). It stopped working on my old PC. I bought a new one, with recommended by the Adobe consultant OS Windows Home 10 (not the WH 11!). Then I installed successfully LR6 on a brand new PC (in order to avoid any interference, PC is still without any other software except the OS), but when I want to open it, it requires to sign in on Adobe website (see attached screenshot). Unfortunately, even after signing in (I attached the screenshot), nothing happens - it still asks for signing in and LR6 does not open. I tried to sign in several times, the same result. I want to use my perpetual licence and don't want to buy subscription. What shall I do?

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Maria_K?dzierska4524Author

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My old computer stopped working. I bought a new one, but with originally installed older OS, as I was informed by the Adobe consultant (it took some time to find it). There is information that LR6 runs under WH10. I don't want to pay for any monthly or annual options. I want to use my perpetual license and I should be able to do so on the older OS I actually have. Thus, please let me know what shall I do to use the LR6 on my computer with old OS WH10.

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Maria_K?dzierska4524Author

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wait a minute. were you able to activate lr6?

I suppose that finally after 36 trials the program has been activated - I did not make anything in a different way, just when I opened it and went through the process of signing-in and accepting the licence agreement for the 37 time the program finally opened. But when I close the invitation box, now it closes after 3 seconds.

But now, when I open the program, it does not show the invitation box anymore, but the program automatically closes as well after 3 seconds.

kglad

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update your os and default (non-opera) browser.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/download-install-discussions/signing-into-and-activating-legacy-adobe-applications/td-p/14372541?linkId=100000317260086

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Maria_K?dzierska4524Author

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Update to WH11? I was informed that it will not run under WH11. I use Chrome.

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Maria_K?dzierska4524Author

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Finally, the screen change and open "Adobe Software License Agreement" (attached screenshot). After choosing "Accept", the window closes and nothing happens. When I try to open LR6 one more time, it comes back to the first screen that requires to sign-in.

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