Is Photoshop Elements 2 compatible with Windows 7 64-bit?

I like PhotoShop Element 2 as well. Not so long ago, I had installed it on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine with 8 Gigabytes of memory. It installed and worked without any issue. I got a newer replacement machine, also Windows 7 64-bit with 8 Gigabytes of memory, and got the same error you experienced. I was puzzled....the only difference between the two systems was the hard disk size. The working machine had a much smaller hard drive (160 Gigabytes, with about half of it used). The non-working machine had a 500 Gigabyte hard drive with about 400 Gigabtyes free.

The solution I found was to make a permanent swap file for the system. Go into system properties and click the Avanced System Settings. Display the Advanced tab. In the Performance box, click Settings. Display the Advanced tab. In the Virtual memory box, click Change. Unmark the option to automatically manage the paging file size. Mark the optio to for a Custom size. Enter an initial and maximum size. I put in 8142 and 12213. Click Set. (This is important...don't skip this step!) Then click OK. Re-boot your machine, and you should be good to go with PhotoShop Elements 2.

Steve