Review by COLORADO HERMIT

I chose this from my Vine list mainly for the photo paint shop. I have the Corel Paint Shop Pro XI and liked it in my old Dell Optiplex desk top with Windows XP but it doesn’t want to run right on my new Dell Studio 17 with the Windows Vista. I thought since this was a newer program it would work better than the old one does with Vista. Wrong.

It took for ever to install it. There must be something with the Windows Vista that isn’t compatible with this program. I’ve only got it to open, after several minutes, a couple of times. The first time I got it to open it started scanning my hard drive collecting or importing all photo files, all video files, and all music files on the hard drive. It did this without my permission and there was no way that I could stop it. It should have let me choose what photo files and video files that I want to import. I definitely do not like a program taking control of my computer. It also used up just over a Gig of my hard drive with over 20,000 files in over 2000 folders.

The few times that I’ve got it to run the Photo Paint Shop I haven’t been able to save much of what I’ve used it for. The program usually stalls out and won’t respond right in the middle of working on a photo loosing what work had been done. Then the only way that I can get it to shut down is opening the Task Manager and forcing it to shut down. What little that I have been able to use this program has been way over simplified actually reducing the usefulness of it and what it can do. So even if I could get it to run right there isn’t anything that it can do better, or even as good as my other photo programs that were a lot cheaper than the price on this one. My Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 is still the one that I use the most out of all the ones that I have. I haven’t tried to use any of the video part of this program yet so I can’t say much about it. But if its like the photo part it probably won’t work right for me either.

So any who, I don’t know if it’s in this program or in the Vista on my lap top, it won’t work for me. It probably will work with XP but I don’t know and I don’t have enough space on the hard drive of my old desk top to try it in that one. So if it works for you, great. But if you are running Vista on your computer I suggest that you try something else.