When I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS4 I had an annoying problem that it wouldn’t run under my normal user account. Following quite a bit of investigation it appears that there is some corruption in my normal user account. Deleting and re-instating the user account was only a partial success – Photoshop CS4 ran perfectly but there were problems with other applications.

I decided that it was time for a complete upgrade and I’m now running a new machine with Windows Vista 64, triple core processor and 4G of ram, the performance improvement is wonderful.

I used Laplink PCmover to migrate applications and data from the existing Windows XP machine to the new Vista 64 platform and once again it worked perfectly saving so much time over individually re-installing each program.

One issue with the new platform is that Norton Ghost 10 is not supported on Vista 64 so I upgraded to Ghost 14, which unfortunately despite many hours with Symantec support could not be made to work correctly. Symantec provided a refund on the purchase price and I’m now running R-Drive Image to create images of my hard drives – it works flawlessly.