I've had some strange problems the past two days with my NIK Collection Plugins and CS5. I'm running Win 7 64bit on a PC. On Tuesday, I noticed that all of my NIK plugins were completely missing on my laptop, a search of my installed programs found no evidence of any NIK product. Yesterday I reinstalled the collection from the original file I had used when they rolled out the free upgrade in March 2013 and everything worked fine again. About an hour later, when I tried to start Photoshop, a window popped up called "Owl Orphanage-Photoshop.exe" saying that Photoshop can not start because the file MSVCP110.dll is missing and to reinstall Photoshop. I did some checking and found some references to an update to the NIK Collection that included a new plugin and sure enough, my collection had been automatically updated to a newer version than what I had just installed an hour earlier. I downloaded the latest version of the NIK Collection from their website, reinstalled it and my problem was fixed on the laptop. I decided to check my desktop and low and behold, the same error message popped. The desktop had also been updated to the latest version of the Collection so I tried the same fix and was back in business. Anyone else having problems with the NIK Collection since this automatic update was pushed out this week?
Dave Jolley