CS3 Photoshop Windows 7

CS3 Photoshop worked great on Vista when upgraded to Windows 7 Photoshop
Opens, Runs but Crashes on import file????
Flash Pro, After Effects works fine in Windows 7.
Any help on Photoshop working in Windows 7 Vista update?
Dell Laptop Windows Vista upgraded to Windows 7
4 GB RAM
500 GB Hard Drive
Windows 7 OS Beta

I have CS4 running on Win 7 here and while I haven't done any heavy
lifting everything runs beautifully.
But...Win 7 is beta and was released well after CS3 and CS4. Also
noteworthy is the fact that you say you upgraded the operating system.
Anything but a clean install is a horrible idea. If you didn't perform a
clean install (which takes all of 18 minutes) that could easily be the
issue.
I certainly hope you're doing this as a test. No way you should be using
a beta operating system on mission critical machines.
Bob

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