When starting Photoshop Organizer in windows 8.1 I get error message that DirectX/DirectPlay is needed.

Where do I find this download?

Hello, I am having a bit of trouble with my win 8.
I have a genuine product key, but for some reason it will not activate.
Does it take some time to get connected for activation or is it something else?
The error is 0xC004C780 and i get message that my windows cannot be activated at this time.
I had several systems that I had this problem with, but no problem on the others I support.  In every case, it was caused by the "Media Center" upgrade being installed.  Apparently, the upgrade process is not expecting the upgrade
to be installed, so it fails because it doesn't find the file versions it is expecting, or at least, that seems to be consistent with it's behavior.
Fortunately for me, I also had Windows 8.1 from my "Action Pack" subscription, so I just installed 8.1 over the top of it.  However, once the install and required reboot had been accomplished, I discovered that it was no longer activated.  I tried
several times to activate the system, but it kept telling me that the "key was invalid for this installation".  I scratched my head for a while and then figured out that the product key changed when I upgrade the original installation of Windows 8 to
Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center.
Thinking quickly, I used a copy of "NirLauncher" (e.g. Nirsoft Utilities from nirsoft.net) and from the "System Utilities", I ran the "Produkey" utility to capture the "Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center" product key and pasted it into the activation window
and it worked!
I hope this helps.
Steve Wilkins

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