Internet Explorer Strikes Again !

This Lenovo Laptop doesn't really have the oomph to run a photo program like GIMP.  So I was looking in a plastic bag on top of the Canon scanner when I saw this CDROM:

 

(this is the same CDROM on archive.org):

https://archive.org/details/elements_202402

Photoshop Elements !  a relatively "light-weight" photo editor from the Windows 98 days.  It was bundled with the Canon scanner I have.  I always liked Photoshop Elements, particularly the "auto levels" which made it easy to pep up a photo without a lot of fuss.

So I tried to install the CDROM on this Lenovo laptop and it came back with an error message:

I don't think that Internet Explorer is even available now.

I also have a Nikon flatbed scanner which came bundled with a version of Photoshop called Photoshop LE - but I can't find the CDROM for that one.  I found an ISO image for Photoshop LE 4.0 on archive.org but it wouldn't install in Windows 11 :(

Nothing is easy anymore :(

Update: apparently Internet Explorer is still resident in Windows 11 however you have to flip through hoops to get it to run.  And I did flip through those hoops, had Internet Explorer running and Photoshop Elements still wouldn't install. :(
 

2nd update: I also tried installing the CDROM on a Windows 10 machine, same error.  Last thing I can think of will be to in effect "sideload" Photoshop Elements from a Windows 98 machine, stay tuned. 

 

3rd update: I tried the "sideload" of Photoshop Elements from a Windows XP machine, didn't work, it was missing some personalization file that wasn't copied.  Next I tried downloading an ISO of Internet Explorer 5 from archive.org - the install didn't work, Photoshop Elements still wouldn't install.  I think I'll give up on this - software companies just don't grok that people could be satisfied with older versions of anything ! 

 

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm