I recently had an odd problem. I have Adobe Creative Suite 5 installed, as well as Photoshop CS6. Since Adobe Bridge comes installed with Photoshop, it also means that I now have two versions of Bridge installed: CS5 (CS5.1 actually) and CS6.

My problem was that whenever I tried to run Bridge CS6, Bridge CS5 would open instead - even when I went to the Adobe Bridge CS6 source folder and double clicked bridge.exe.

It turns out that there's an easy fix. The problem is that Bridge 5 is still loading itself into your memory when you start your PC. So, with its 'foot in the door' in your RAM, it automatically launches itself whenever you try to launch Bridge - even if you try to launch a different version.

To solve the problem:

• press the windows key
  
• type msconfig and press enter
  
• select the startup tab
  
• scroll down until you find Adobe Bridge CS5 (or CS5.1 or whatever), then uncheck it
  
• Click ok, and restart
  

That should solve it, as Bridge 5 should no longer load itself up on startup. If the problem persists however, try the following:

• Open Bridge 5
  
• select edit/preferences (or press Ctrl-K)
  
• from the list on the left, select "Startup Scripts"
  
• choose disable all and click ok
  
• restart the computer
  

UPDATE: Windows 10 fixes now also provided

If you draw or paint with a wacom tablet on Windows 7, you may have suffered through one of Microsoft's more puzzling punishments: those horrible little circles that hound your cursor and hamper your ability to draw smoothly. From what I gather, they're actually designed for touch-screen monitors, so it's frustrating that Microsoft forces them onto wacom users where they don't belong.

I found it surprisingly hard to find the solution to this issue online. Part of the problem is that there are two separate circles, each with a separate solution. Another part is that one of the solutions I frequently came across doesn't work on Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. The below solutions do.