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March 3, 2024
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Photoshop in virtual machine - problems

  • March 3, 2024
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Hello. Some time ago I had problems wit my windows system and thanks to a lot of forums and sebsides I finally solved them. But problems with Photoshop seems to never ends. Due to a crash when opening a file and turning on some effect in the program, moving the slider, pressing e.g. the text entry function, this program cannot be used. And you pay for it every month.
I installed VMware Workstation Pro for virtual machine and installed windows there. Then Creative cloud and Photoshop. Unfortunately, windows won't activate on the VM because it treats the VM as a separate device, even though it's your system and you paid for it...
Do you know of any way to install Photoshop in an isolated environment where it can crash a million times, so that you can turn the environment off and on without affecting the underlying system?

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    Kevin Stohlmeyer
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    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
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    March 5, 2024

    So you currently have Creative Cloud/Photoshop installed on your Windows machine and also on a Virtual Machine on the same Windows computer with Creative Cloud/Photoshop installed there?

    Is the issue that Windows won't activate or Creative Cloud?

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 5, 2024

    This really seems like a convoluted way to work around issues with your main Windows machine and Photoshop crashing.

    Perhaps go to Photoshop (on the original Windows Machine) Help Menu/System Info. Copy and paste the entire report here so we can review the setup.

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