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emmrecs wrote on 7/19/2024, 9:49 AM

@Jaco-duToit

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

My very strong suspicion is that Photostory 2006 is much too old to be able to run successfully under Win 10, sorry.

You could try right-clicking on the program's desktop icon or .exe file, going to Properties>Compatibility and seeing whether you have any options offered there, most likely to be Windows 8, if anything. Try selecting this. Then try again to run the program.

HTH

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johnebaker wrote on 7/19/2024, 10:23 AM

@Jaco-duToit

Hi

. . . . Photostory 2006 only gives the splash screen for 0.1sec and then closes again . . . .

Was the program working and suddenly started this behaviour, or is this a re-installation?

If it suddenly stopped working, check that your Antivirus program is not blocking the program, how you do this depends on the Antivirus you have.

If a re-installation, did you get any warnings about Microsoft C++ not being able to be installed?

In either case Photostory 2006 depends on an old version of the Microsoft C++ redistributable which are not compatible with Windows 10, are no longer available or supported and, in my experience, are not re-installable.

I am on Windows 11 and cannot get the C++ 2005 redistributable re-installed, after they appeared to have been disabled by a Windows update.

The only option available to you, if this is the case, is to update to a Windows 10 compatible version of Photostory

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Jaco-duToit wrote on 7/22/2024, 12:47 AM

Appreciate the feedback.

Jaco-duToit wrote on 7/22/2024, 7:06 AM

I was sending this on behalf of a client of mine and made a mistake on the version of the software. They are running Photostory 2013 and not 2006. Would that make a difference in running it on Windows 10?

johnebaker wrote on 7/22/2024, 7:27 AM

@Jaco-duToit

Hi

Photostory 2013 was certified up to Windows 8 and theoretically would have run on early versions of Windows 10, however if Windows 10 is up-to-date, then it is unlikely to run correctly.

John EB

VPX 16, Movie Studio 2025, and earlier versions 2015 and 2016, Music Maker Premium 2024.

PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

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