Compatibility Windows 11/Adobe CS 6

Weston · Jul 24, 2024

After coffee spilled into my Asus laptop, a store tech was able to recover my documents and pictures, but not much else.
She sold me an inexpensive Lenovo with Windows 11 on it, saying there were no Windows 10 computers in the store and MS wasn't sending them anymore.
I loathe Windows 11 and so I deleted and moved around folders from their locations. One result is that the very top folder in my directory is "Desktop" and everything, including another "desktop"; follows inside, beginning with Home. Almost nothing that I open or save goes to the right place.

But my immediate problem is that my website is created with the Dreamweaver and Photoshop versions contained in Creative Suite 6, which is the last version BEFORE Adobe went to Cloud subscription. It was still working on Windows 10, but although it acknowledges that my passwords are correct, it refuses to let me install them. A friend has suggested that I buy a used computer with Windows 10 and install my Adobe files on it.

Will MS allow these non-cloud CS 6 files to install on a used or new Windows 10 computer?

bobkn · Jul 24, 2024

I'm not running any CS6 products on 11, but I believe they should install and activate. Adobe may stop activation support for CS6 products at some time, as they have for older products, but I think you're still good.

Not sure what you mean by "passwords". License keys, maybe?

A guess: is the laptop running 11 in S mode? That only permits the installation of apps from the Microsoft Store.

If it is, you can switch out of S mode. Switching out of S mode in Windows - Microsoft Support

Once you've done that, you basically can't return to S mode. (But who would wish to?)

If you "loathe" 11 that much, you may be able to install 10 on the Lenovo. As you haven't specified a model, it's not possible for us here to check whether that'd be possible.

antspants · Jul 24, 2024

bobkn said:
If you "loathe" 11 that much, you may be able to install 10 on the Lenovo. As you haven't specified a model, it's not possible for us here to check whether that'd be possible.

Should be possible with the correct ISO and replacing or adding the ei.cfg file in the sources folder of the ISO

antspants · Jul 24, 2024

But theres only 12 months(?) life left on Windows 10 so unless the OP wants to mess about after that, I would just utilise this forum for any help needed with getting used to Windows 11.

Weston · Jul 24, 2024

To bobkn: i I don't know what "Watched" means or how I got there - sorry :-(
I'll read and respond to the rest in the morning.
I greatly appreciate all of the responses.

Ghot · Jul 24, 2024

Weston said:
To bobkn: i I don't know what "Watched" means or how I got there - sorry :-(
I'll read and respond to the rest in the morning.
I greatly appreciate all of the responses.

Hello @Weston and welcome to ElevenForum.

I've never seriously used Photoshop, but Paint Shop Pro 7.04 run fine on Windows 10 and 11.
PSP 7.04 is from 2001, I believe.

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Marcus Vinicus · Jul 24, 2024

There are a large number of threads over on the Adobe Community Forums re using CS6 on Windows 10 & 11 and what users have tried. Apparently, it isn't supported on either OS nor is it a dead cert to work.

If I was going to try and install CS6 on Windows 10 or 11 based on what I read on the Adobe Forums I'd make sure I first had a full backup using Macrium Reflect, AOMEI Backupper or similar of my Windows install before I started.

As suggested by others here the OP will probably have to resort to trying to force Windows 10 & 11 to let CS6 run.

pparks1 · Jul 24, 2024

antspants said:
But theres only 12 months(?) life left on Windows 10 so unless the OP wants to mess about after that, I would just utilise this forum for any help needed with getting used to Windows 11.

15 months. It expires on Oct 14, 2025.

dacrone · Jul 24, 2024

Photoshop cs6 will run on windows 11. You installed it but cannot activate? Or get an error during install?

Ghot · Jul 24, 2024

Weston said:
it refuses to let me install them

It could be that on Windows 11 you don't have the older Visual C++ Runtimes.
A lot of older programs need certain older versions of the Runtimes..
There's an all-in-one installer for them, here...

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Extract all the files to a "new" folder and double click the install_all.bat ...to install them all.

In Programs & Features it should look like this when you're all done...

dacrone · Jul 24, 2024

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Just downloaded the photoshop cs6 trial and installed it on a windows 11 box with no issues. And yes, the links are clean.

Weston · Aug 13, 2024

I've had a very hard time with this, not knowing if I should enter the too expensive Cloud system on Windows 11, or whether to try to find a Windows 10 laptop somehow and try to load my old cd's. Part of the problem is that I have received opposite advice from knowledgeable people. The result is that I still don't have Dreamweaver working and so I can't work on my webite.
Two days ago a Staples manager sold me a $149 Photoshop Elements insisting that Photoshop was on the disk as well. I installed it, and it wasn't.

I think I saw a comment that this thread had been moved to a more appropriate forum, but I can't find that message -- I assume the forum this has been moved to is Adobe.

Thank you all very much for offering help that I'm sure someone more talented than I could have used with success. I'm not seeing the Like etc, links....

Weston · Aug 13, 2024

Can someone please tell me where this was moved to?

antspants · Aug 13, 2024

You mean this thread?

It’s in the “Apps & Software” section

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/compatibility-windows-11-adobe-cs-6.27053/

Weston · Aug 13, 2024

Thanks very much. I'm finally beginning to feel my age, 93, and I'm not liking it. I think I'll forget about my website and just write (dictate...I have a right-hand tremor) my memoirs. :-(

Dark Knight · Aug 13, 2024

I have Windows 11 Pro with Adobe Photoshop CS6 installed on it and it runs just fine.

Weston · Aug 14, 2024

Is your Photoshop subscribed to the Cloud, for which you are paying?
My Windows 11 is Home, but it seems unlikely that this makes a difference.

Dark Knight · Aug 14, 2024

Weston said:
Is your Photoshop subscribed to the Cloud, for which you are paying?
My Windows 11 is Home, but it seems unlikely that this makes a difference.

No I do not use Adobe cloud services, Photoshop is directly installed on my PC

dacrone · Aug 14, 2024

Use the link I posted. Cs6 installs just fine.

Weston · Mar 26, 2025

Hello/, My Windows 11 file structure was altered by me, in my effort to arrange folders my way, outside of the Windows 11 boxes. Somehow the top box is Network, not Home. I'm never sure what folders and files reside in which boxes. This morning I discovered that my WordPerfect x7 is not intact. For starters, the Main Tookbar and the Property Ba;r are missing and the Quikfinder can find bu t can't do anything with the results. I suspect the program files .are not where they should be.
I don't know if I asked this question when I was last here: is there any safe way of rearranging the file structure, which I never understood., as to its multiple boxes with the same name. Is there a safe way to remove duplicate boxes? to know which is the real box and which are the duplicates?

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