I'm running Windows VISTA and the other day I installed PAINTER 9.5...it worked perfectly in WinXP, but in VISTA I start it up, the interface loads, I get 2 white boxes in the window {where the "Welcome Book" should be}, and none of the menus work.
I have VISTA UAC turned off, running as Administrator.
I get no error messages, the program simply won't finish launching.

I contacted Corel support and they replied: Painter 9.5 does not run on Windows Vista and we currently do not have a schedule release date for an update at this time.

Nice.

So I got PAINTER X.
Uninstalled PAINTER 9.5, cleared all folders and registry of any stray files, rebooted, installed PAINTER X, running program as Administrator.
Exact same thing happens...interface loads, I get 2 blank pages where the "Welcome book" should be, and I can't go any further...
most of the menus are greyed out, and the ones that aren't don't work.

Anyone else having problems in VISTA?



System Details
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DELL Dimension 8400
3.4 Ghz P4
2GB RAM
80GB hard drive, 38GB free disk space
Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB PCIe graphics card