I don't know. It strange that anyone would pirate a copy of a free software beta-version. But, I guess it's possible. I didn't really pay that much attention to the forum posts on these Image Editing problems as I don't have any image editing on my machine. I was looking for answers to my networking problems.
I wasn’t clear - I meant pirated copies of the image editing software. Some of the cracks for PS don’t work so well under Windows 7.