Can't uninstall CS3

I recently installed CS5. I want to
uninstall CS3 so that when I edit a photo in Elements 8.0 using Photoshop it goes into CS5 and not CS3. I went into Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, and clicked on CS3. When I did this, the screen froze up, and I had to restart the computer to get out of it. I tried this twice, and the same thing happened the second time. I experimented with removing a different old program, and it uninstalled just fine. How can I get rid of CS3 if I can't remove it using the Add or Remove Program function???

All wrong! The mess is between your different versions of your Adobe programs. you need to uninstall them all and then reinstall in correct order. Just removing CS3 won't fix anything, anyways, as it will destroy any file associations also for CS5 and possibly PSE8. So you'd be doing more damage than good... Use the CS5 Clean Script (which also applies to CS3 and CS4) to remove programs if the installers don't work.
Mylenium

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Run CS4 clean script, a couple of times if necessary.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs4clean.html
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http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html
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trimi-jareck wrote:
> yes i tried this but it didn't work !
> i still have the problem !
Clear all registry entries manually, folders and directories
then do the
installation all over again.
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Urami
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