Photoshop 7 crashed

[nevada_city]

I am desperate!  I have ten thousand photos organized in my adobe photoshop elements 7 which has been working ok on my windows 10 computer until now.  Note: working OK means I have to restart it sometimes because it stops working, but eventually it has been good.  Now it has completely stopped working.  Should I upgrade to a newer version?  I read a lot of negative comments about photoshop 15 and I need to know if it is a good product and whether it will work with all the photos organized in photoshop elements 7.  Please help me!

[John T Smith]

Two ideas that MAY work to install and/or run old programs in Windows 10

-RIGHT click the program icon or EXE and select a compatibility mode in the pop up option window

-or Run as Administrator http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395 to assign FULL Windows permissions may help... says Encore, but sometimes required for ALL Adobe programs (this is NOT the same as using an Administrator account)

-or more on permissions https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2293598

Owners of old programs simply have problems with Windows 10... none of which is Adobe's fault... Adobe did not change your old program to make it stop working... Microsoft changed their operating system and THAT is why your old program won't work, not because of anything Adobe did... Also... every time Microsoft issues a Win10 update, there is the risk that an old program that HAS been working after the initial Win10 upgrade will STOP working... bottom line, old programs require a matching old operating system

[hatstead]

You can download the free 30-day trial of PSEv.15. If it works for you, you can purchase the license subsequently.

This tech note should help with the catalog.

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