Can you install Photoshop 4.0 on Windows 7

Well too good to be true, 4.0 is crashing a lot!

thagirl1963 said:

Well too good to be true, 4.0 is crashing a lot!

Don't give up. You may have to train it a bit. Try right click "troubleshoot" then apply settings. See what that does. My 5.0 runs really well. Did you get popups asking for missing dll's?

Outlander said:

thagirl1963 said:

Well too good to be true, 4.0 is crashing a lot!

Don't give up. You may have to train it a bit. Try right click "troubleshoot" then apply settings. See what that does. My 5.0 runs really well. Did you get popups asking for missing dll's?

yes I did and I added the missing dll to the photoshop folder. The program starts without asking for missing dll's but as soon as I start using the lasso tool and really working in the program, it start crashing on me every 10 to 15 minutes into my work.

logicearth said:

Why not use it inside of a virtual machine running a OS from the stone ages? Probably can use VirtualPC or VirtualBox both free.

Sounds like a really sound idea logicearth !

Just wanted to say I run PS 7.0 on a windows 7 x64 system with out any problems whatsoever .

Photoshop '4' or photoshop CS4? well, i have CS3 ( i preffer it... ) I have Had cs4 on my pc. Works fine.

Pixelpro said:

Photoshop '4' or photoshop CS4? well, i have CS3 ( i preffer it... ) I have Had cs4 on my pc. Works fine.

it works fine on 84bit windows?

I tried what you said by copying a working model of Adobe Photoshop 4.0 from my XP Pro system. I copied the folder to a portable drive and copied the folder to the x86 folder on the Win 7 system. Attempting to launch program only gives me a popup that says "There is not enough memory (RAM) to launch Photoshop."

I have 16 Gb installed and 8Gb available. I tried editing the Photos40.ini file but some permission issue came up.

Thanks in advance for any help, here.

With the knowledge gained in these posts, I bought a new windows 7, 32 bit laptop comfortable that I could install my copy of photoshop 4.0. I saved all of the files to a flash drive, but then kept trying to locate an x86 folder which in Windows 7 does not appear in the programs on the computer. I discovered that with the 32 bit system the folder for "all programs" is in effect the x86 folder. I copied all of the photoshop files there in a folder I called photoshop and when I found the installation file, it installed perfectly with no further efforts needed. I am extremely pleased and thank all those before me who have shared there wisdom.