Which Lightroom for Windows XP?

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Mike D90

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Just spent and hour and 20 minutes downloading LR 5 Trial version. Did not read the system requirements and it won't install because I have Windows XP instead of Windows 7 or higher.

Are there free trials of the older version software anywhere?
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Windows XP is probably one of the best Windows OS that they have made. Many high end proprietary systems still use it as the base for their systems. The TV station that I just retired from just spent several million dollars on state of the art automation system to run the 5 networks that came out of that building. The computer systems that ran the system we found out was running Windows XP.

That being said it is time to upgrade. Modern software is now being rewritten to take advantage of the new OS and many companies are dropping backward compatibility since trying to do that made the programs buggy and bloated. Just handling the latest couple of OS makes the programs much better and also cuts the cost or at least gives them more profit.

Very good desktop systems running Windows 8 can be had for $600 to $700 that will run all the latest and greatest program.
 
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pictaker64

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Filehippo usually has older versions of proggies,I did a quick search for you
Download Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 - FileHippo.com
seems they have it down to 4.1,hope this helps

Mike d90 said:
Just spent and hour and 20 minutes downloading LR 5 Trial version. Did not read the system requirements and it won't install because I have Windows XP instead of Windows 7 or higher.

Are there free trials of the older version software anywhere?
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Dave_W

The Dude
Mike d90 said:
That one will work if it is a trial version! Thanks!
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I'm not altogether sure you can "buy" LR 3. The license you purchase now may only apply to LR 5 since I'm pretty sure they update the algorithm that produces their license codes for each new version and I'm not so sure LR 3 would recognize a newer code. You might want to check with Adobe before you put out any money.
 
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Mike D90

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Dave_W said:
I'm not altogether sure you can "buy" LR 3. The license you purchase now may only apply to LR 5 since I'm pretty sure they update the algorithm that produces their license codes for each new version and I'm not so sure LR 3 would recognize a newer code. You might want to check with Adobe before you put out any money.
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This one says Trial version. I am not spending anything right now. I can't even if I wanted too.
 
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Mike D90

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Holy Smoke!! LightRoom 3.6 freakin' rocks! The sharpening and noise reduction is incredible! And, it runs better than LightZone or ViewNX 2 on my computer.
 
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