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[AC9breaker]

Yeah, after years of saying I was gonna do it, I'm finally doing it. Building myself a PC. I've been trying to read up as much as I can on stuff and have been browsing newegg speculating. Anyway, I figured this would be more productive if I got some input for you guys. Primarily this is gonna be a gaming PC, but I at the very least want this PC to be relevant for 5 years, and I'm gonna be using it for more then just gaming. School, musings, w/e. Possible I'll be leaving the PC on for long periods of time so maybe cooling will be a factor?

I like me some nVidia chips and I'm not planning on overclocking (yet) so intel is fine with me. Any ESD precautions I should take and such would also be appreciated. I'm planning on working with a 900 dollar budget for the rig itself. But it's flexable. So... show me ya moves!

[Crushinator]

Did you try running the programs as administrator? (right click on the application and pick "run as administrator").

Adobe CS2 has known compatibility problems with Vista and AFIAK Adobe doesn't officially support it on that OS. If you're using Vista 64 then this might work:

There is a hard to find trick to get install to work correctly.

Creative Suite installer doesn't support Vista file naming convention, however, if you install anywhere but C:\Program Files (x86)\ CS programs WILL CRASH ON LOAD.

You must instead using legacy naming scheme.

Install to C:\progra~2\Adobe\

note, ~1 directs to \Program Files\

you must use ~2 for \Program Files (x86)\

The pop up asking your permission to run thing is called "User Account Control (UAC)", and you can disable it in the security control panel. Doing so does open your computer to vulnerability from malware though, so be careful.