Fishface wrote:
I hate that thing, too.
It sounds like you have done everything right.
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332361.html
At this point, assuming you are running some flavor of Windows XP, I would go into the Services Manager and disable the appropriate service or services. Since I don’t have PSE3 installed on this machine and I don’t have PSE4 at all, I can’t tell you what it/they are called. To access the Services Manager, you can either right click on My Computer and choose Manage and find the icon that looks like two meshed gears (yellow and white), or type "services.msc" from the Run… command on the Start Menu. When you find the appropriate service(s), from the properties menu you can stop them and set their startup type to disabled.
Yep, you’ll have to goto Run, and type in "services.msc" as explained above. (No quotes)
Switch to the ‘Extended’ tab, and then look down the list for the service named "Photoshop Elements Device Connect". It’s description should be:
"Photoshop Elements Organizer launch utility on device arrival."
There may even be two of them, if you are running two copies of Elements.
Right click it, and press "Stop".
Then right click again, and select "Properties"
Under ‘Startup Type", select "Disabled"
That should fix it. Let us know either way though!
Robert Redwood
www.easyelements.com
Photoshop Elements Expert Advice