Droplet not working

Hi people,
I am new to photoshop and was trying to create a droplet. I manage to create a droplet(resizing of image) from the various tutorials but it does not seem to work.
I saved the droplet in the my desktop and whenever i drag an image over it, it just open the photoshop program.
But within the photoshop program, if i open an image and 'play' the action, it run to what i expect it to.
My current system is as follows:
Windows 7 64-bit
Adobe CreateSuite 4 Web Premium
Any help will do. Thanks in advance

Maybe you both should, if not already done, write a e-mail request/bug report to adobe to help them find a solution for Windows 7. This is a user to user forum and they will not know you are having problems. Here is the link.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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(click on the images below to enlarge)
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