Running classic in Tiger????

Probably a stupid question, but I can't get my computer to run in Classic mode. It acts like it is going to start when I try and run Photoshop 6 and never actually does. What should I do?

You're asking for three different issues.
1) The Quicktime message will dissapear if you install a new Quicktime version.
2) If you install Photoshop 6 you can't make the upgrade to a newer version.
This is the example: I've got Adobe Photoshop CS (version 8), it's a completely different version from the 6, I mean, you can't make the "upgrade" from one version over the other one.
Some applications and operative systems made some adjustment here and there from time to time, but, sometimes there's a need for a bigger step, and you need a complete new version to do that.
3) Keeping Classic or not it's a matter of taste, you'll find people who's still in love with OS 9, others without OS 9 since the first OS X. My personal experience, and I'm without OS 9 since a year or so, if you can make the move to the OS X versions for all your applications and extra stuff, it's great. But what if?...
Perhaps you've got some strange and crazy files with no chance no use them in OSX, or you don't want to spend some extra money getting new version from applications you already paid long ago and far away. This last choice is really weird, but possible, because right now you've got almost everything little thing from the OS 9, one way or another, working great in OS X.
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