Photoshop Memory Problem

[ardypilot]

I copied over my Adobe Photoshop program folder from my home PC to my laptop, and it run fine the first time I tried it. However, when I try to run it today, I get this error message pop up:



My laptop only has 1GB ram compared to the 2.5GB my home PC has, so I thought I would be able to fix this via starting up in safe mode. That didn't work though, so next I increased my hard disks virtual memory, increasing it to 1600MB (min) - 2000MB (max). I've tried running photoshop again after this but still receive this error every time... are there any alternative ways to fix my problem???

[Stumpy]

Do you have the original install disks?
sorry to sound dumb on this one, but I fixed it (same thing on mine) by rebooting my pc

[toprob]

QUOTE (Stumpy @ Jun 14 2008, 04:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you have the original install disks?

Yes, I wouldn't recommend just copying an application from one PC to another -- there are always registry entries etc which need to be set up by the initial install. It would be simpler, anyway, to just run the install again.

[Anthony]

Yes just copying the application folder won't work.
It will definitely need to be installed using the disks.

Especially if the two are on a different version of Windows (XP to Vista).

The reason it doesn't work is registry keys are missing (they live in the registry, not the application folder) and maybe some DLL files (which are stupid in themselves, but essential), plus I have a feeling that Photoshop itself wouldn't work with this even if the registry/DLLs etc wasn't an issue.

[ardypilot]

Deleted the copied folder and reinstalled from the original setup.exe- it worked fine. Thanks for the advice all