Comments on: Adobe CS3 Install HELL

By: justinohms

justinohms — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:28:24 +0000

I really couldn’t be sure. One thought that does cross my mind is that there is some registry settings or files hanging around on your system that are causing the problem. As the ultimate extreme measure when you do an uninstall, make sure that you uninstall ALL Adobe and Macromedia programs (Uninstall the flash plug-ins for the browsers) Then do a scan of the hard disk for every conceivable place related files might be hiding. Search the file system and the registry for ‘Adobe’, ‘Macromedia’, ‘Photoshop’, ‘Flash’ etc… Delete everything you come across. Then do all the normal windows maintenance tasks, clear cache, delete temp files, run regclean. I would even go ahead and defrag the drive and run windows update (Service packs etc.). I wouldn’t really be hopeful that this would work and it might not be worth the trouble. It might be easier to just flatten you machine and start over with a fresh install of Windows because that would probably be your next step anyway. Either way good luck!

By: M

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:20:08 +0000

Hi there

I am still struggling with this. I had to re-install my laptop – new HDD and everything. I can’t actually get CS3 re-installed on the laptop. I have carried out a fresh install several times, and am still having no luck.

I can’t work out what to do and have tried many things on the internet (listed in this blog post and on many other websites).

Any ideas??

Cheesr

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:31:29 +0000

Thanks for the step-by-step. After hours of frustration with CS3, I followed your instructions and it worked!

By: Oh Lordy

Oh Lordy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:53:01 +0000

Adobe $%^&ers. You all deserve to loose your jobs. How can you be soooooo crap?

thanks for this website – it helped me finally fix my installation. I only tried to add one component and all the rest went wrong.

Adobe you are “£$%&*^ useless £$^&%$^$ers. I lost days messing around with this shit.

And the same bollocks happens with CS4 – the only difference is it takes EVEN LONGER. Are you mad / do you really want us all to go with the competition.? Their direct advise to me about Premiere problems was “use other software”. i almost choked in disbelief at that…

Thanks people for being superious to “£$%Adobe.

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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:43:53 +0000

[...] Here is a site that lists many solutions that have worked for others in the past. I tried EVERY trick listed here- multiple times. http://blog.flexuous.com/2007/07/20/adobe-cs3-install-hell/ [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:20:08 +0000

I want you to know, I love you. I love you very much…lmao…I had been trying for a week to reinstall my cs3 and thought I was pretty much screwed…so yes. I love you…You effin rock. Thank you for your help!!

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:28:39 +0000

You were wondering who made the Adobe CS3 Installer:

http://www.blueflavor.com/our-work/adobe-cs3-installer/

The installer was “multi-platform” (ie: same installer for both Mac and PC) and was programmed in JAVA.

Double-Whammy. No wonder nothing works! (whoever thought that one up was utterly clueless. Worst idea Adobe or anyone else has ever had. You *NEVER* make a cross-platform installer that is sort of like breaking all 10 of the 10 commandments or something equally heinous).

You can thank JAVA for the extreme slowness (any program written in JAVA (or .NET for that matter) is going to run S L O W no matter how good the programmer is).

By: virginia wedding photographer

virginia wedding photographer — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:09:57 +0000

My hat totally goes off to you for sharing with us how to fix this.. I used to know the insides of the mac pretty well, but the pc was always pretty cryptic. a HUGE THANK YOU.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:53:07 +0000

Thank you so much for taking the time and putting this together for everyone. After the 100th link posting answers to the installation issue I was all about to give up hope…I then found your link and mind you not excited about reading another post on the topic. However, I didn’t give up trying seeing that there were other people that had posted they got it to work after following your instructions…and by golly I GOT IT TO WORK!!! Brand new laptop with vista 64 bit so I’m sure some of the step you had posted didn’t fall under what I needed to do…however the big thing for me was step 5 and 6…I think that was KEY to getting it working finally. I could hardly believe my eyes when saw GREEN checkmarks and no RED X’s. So thank you Thank you thank you!

To the rest of you…good luck I hope you all get it working…cause I know EXACTLY what you are going through!

By: kelly king

kelly king — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:39:31 +0000

There was a much easier solution to your problems, just found this advice tonight.

Installing Photoshop CS3 on Vista PC [SOLUTION]

I’ve just spent TWO DAYS trying to install PS3 on my PC. The install seemed
to work OK, but when it finished only some of the components were installed.
I read all the Adobe KB articles, but still no luck. Finally, I’ve come up
with a solution that worked for me. This may be of interest to Photoshop
users…

1] Install Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp Utility from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
[2] Run the CS3Clean script from
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html.
Select the [undocumented] level 4 cleanup. This removes ALL Adobe
applications.
[3] Turn on User Account Control – may not be necessary, but it is for Adobe
Reader!
[4] Copy the Adobe CS3 folder to your HD, right-click Setup and select Run
As Administrator