1 Reply Latest reply: May 2, 2011 11:43 AM by Noel Carboni RSS

    Photoshop will not open unless as Admin but that causes other problems

    thizzzordie Community Member

      Hi all,

       

      There are two problems:

      1.  If I don't run photoshop as an administrator

      2.  If I run photoshop as an administrator.

       

      1.  If I don't run as administrator, Photoshop will NOT open.  I can't even open .psd by double clicking them.  Can't open from the installed directory, can't open from shortcuts.  It only works if I right click run as admin or set properties to run as admin. 

      I am the only user for the system, and I have even taken ownership of all files.  Yet, it still requires me to run as admin.  I am running CS5 with windows 7 64bit.

       

       

      2.  If I run as admin I cannot drag or drop files into PS.  As detailed in here - http://forums.adobe.com/message/3640635.  I can open files manually through file menu, but dragging and dropping is disabled (shows a circle with a slash when i drag into PS). Their solution in the forum was to remove running as admin.  But if I do that, I get problem 1.

       

      Any ideas?

       

      Jason

        • 1. Re: Photoshop will not open unless as Admin but that causes other problems
          Noel Carboni Community Member

          Option 1:  Clearly something went wrong when installing Photoshop, or you have changed permissions on your system for some part(s) Photoshop needs to access.  Verify, for example, that you have Full Control access to the root of the hard drive you have identified as scratch.  A reinstall of Photoshop might correct this.

           

          Option 2:  Windows UAC is likely the culprit here.  Some folks choose to turn off UAC completely, which means you'll be running everything as Administrator all the time, but that should not be done without FULLY understanding what UAC does for you and what additional measures you'll take to ensure your system doesn't get infected with malware.

           

          -Noel