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Topic: Craft Artist and Windows 11

I need to get a new pc as my existing one is about 15 years old.  I have Craft Artist on disc and as a download with their product keys, but I am wondering whether Craft Artist will work on Windows 11.  Has anyone already tried this ? many thanks for any help.

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Re: Craft Artist and Windows 11

It seems to work on Windows 10 OK, so it should do so on W11, I think.

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Re: Craft Artist and Windows 11

GB wrote:

It seems to work on Windows 10 OK, so it should do so on W11, I think.

In theory it should do, in practice there seem to have been some problems with Win 11, particularly after a recent update.

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4 Reply by KarenPL (edited by KarenPL 2024-10-28 15:29:29)

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Re: Craft Artist and Windows 11

I have been on Win 11 for quite a while now, and use CraftArtist 2 Pro quite frequently. In fact, I'm currently using it to make scrapbook pages of my recent holiday in Northumberland, which included not one, but two nights of aurora photos (more than 300 in total https://punster.me/images/whistling.gif). I've already made up a scrapbook album of our Lindisfarne visit, which also had rather a lot of photos to incorporate.

I also used it back in September for another three sets of scrapbook pages (more than 50 in some projects) and on the whole, it's not causing any problems.

I do find it a good idea to save my work before attempting  to add any text to pages, as that does sometimes cause a crash. But it would do that on Win 10 as well, so no real change there. I am also in the habit of saving every time I finish one page before moving to the next.

It will crash at times, but I have now got used to saving my project whenever I've done anything I don't wish to have to re-do in the event of a crash, so basically I am very pleased that I can use it pretty much as well as I did when on Win 10.

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Re: Craft Artist and Windows 11

KarenPL wrote:

I have been on Win 11 for quite a while now, and use CraftArtist 2 Pro quite frequently … I am very pleased that I can use it pretty much as well as I did when on Win 10.

Thanks, Karen, that’s good to know. Very encouraging!

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