How to prepare hard drive for installation of PSE 13 upgrade

I would like to run PSE 13 upgrade on a notebook where I have PSE 5 installed. Should I uninstall PSE 5 before installing PSE 13?
How should I prepare my hard disk for the installation? I have found that uninstall programs leave files be hind. Does Adobe have a cleaning tool?
The notebook is a Dell, Latitude E6400, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.27GHz, 2 GB RAM
32-bit Operating System, Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1

Thank's for your reply - nice to know that they are independent operations. I appreciate your thought about the 30 day trial, however I already made the purchase.
Here is the rest of my plan - please advise what you think. I have a desktop computer with a 64-bit CPU and two 500 GB SATAs. I thought I would create a virtual PC and run Vista in it. Then I install PSE 5.
Ken

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I would like to install PSE 13 upgrade on a notebook where I have PSE 5 installed. How should I prepare the hard drive for the installation? Should I uninstall PSE 5 before installling PSE 13? I have found that uninstall programs leave files behind does Adobe have a cleaning tool?
The notebook is a Dell, Latitude E6400, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.27GHz 2 GB RAM
32-bit operating system, Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1

KCav45 we do have the CC Cleaner Tool available at Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6. The most which it would remove from Photoshop Elements 5 would be the licensing files. Even for Photoshop Elements 13 the uninstaller must be run first and only the licensing files are affected.
I would recommend running the uninstaller available through the Programs and Features Control Panel to remove the Photoshop Elements 5 installation. Your photos should not be affected.
I did find Use Backup, Restore to move catalog | Organizer | Elements 6 or later although I am unsure if it is relevant for Photoshop Elements 5. If you have questions regarding transferring the photos, and any tags or organization you have done, to Photoshop Elements 13 I would recommend posting in the Photoshop Elements forum at Photoshop Elements. The community in that forum will be more familiar with the topic of moving your photos.

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Last edited by Chr|s (2012-05-02 07:44:09)

alphaniner wrote:
It's an issue with the snapshot isos going back several weeks at least. If you don't know how to work around it, you'll have to use the last stable release.
Or, take the oppurtunity to learn LVM. The last snapshot I tested, LVM lvs weren't affected for some reason.
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