Considering an upgrade to CS4

Hi all.
I have used Premiere since version 6.5. Moved to 1.5, then to Production Studio 2. I am thinking of upgrading to CS4 Production Studio Premium and was wondering if anyone could weigh in on the stability or compability of CS4 operating on Vista 64?
I have upgraded my hardware to AMD Phenom Quad-Core, 8 gig RAM, 512 MB video, >2TB hard disk space. I am pretty sure I have enough umph to run OK.
Am I too late to get in on CS4 before a new version is set to come out? I haven't heard of any but wondering what's in the grapevine.
Thanks.
keith

I would do it. I love CS4 and have been very happy with it.
As for the next version, I think you've got a lot of time before the next version, but then again you never know when Adobe will release CS5. But if I had to guess, it would be sometime next year.

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[email protected] wrote:
The painful part is I HAD the original CS 8.0 on the Mac. LOL. I had just forgotten it due to having an Intel Mac and kind of overlooking it.
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Hi I am currently running with CS3 but I am intending to upgrade to CS4. As I am often in the US I note that the upgrades are far cheaper than in the UK. I was therefore looking to buy my upgrade in the US however I was wondering of there would be any problems updating a UK CS3 with a US CS4.
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Some general information... your Adobe account and your credit card details must match exactly
Change/Verify Account https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1465499 may help
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/change-country-associated-with-adobe-id. html
-Credit card https://helpx.adobe.com/utilities/credit-card.html
-ID support http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service-c1.html
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Hi There,
I had a lot of issues upgrading from CS4 (Adobe Application Manager crashing, installer not opnening etc) but managed to get the installer to run by using the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool to remove all traces of CS4.
However, when the installer finished, it stated there were errors and now the installers won't run - nor can I run updates from the CS apps that did install.
I've normally never had any issues upgrading, so am not sure why I had so many issues and the best way forward from here - Hoping I don't have to remove all the CS5 apps, use the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool again and start from the begining.
I'm trying to install Master Collection CS5.5 on Mac OS 10.7.2
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Unfortunately, nothing was installed.
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Hello:
I recently conducted a LONG phone-based support incident, and I have reviewed the many KB articles on my topic(s) but I still have some questions.
ISSUE:
I need help with uninstalling & cleaning up CS4 in order to cleanly install CS5.5, coincident with a planned upgrade from Office2007 to Office2010 on a Win7(x64) SP1 PC. I use fully-licensed educational versions of Adobe CS & MS Office products.
In particular, I need to know if I should upgrade Office2007 to Office 2010 BEFORE uninstalling CS4 and installing CS5.5, or the other way around?
Background:
1) Several weeks ago, Adobe PDF Printer in Acrobat 9 of my long-standing, fully-patched CS4 install inexplicably disappeared from my system.
2) TMAVLSS, After several long weeks of phone assistance with escalated Tech Support, including attempts to repair the PDF printer, reinstall it, uninstall drivers, reinstall it again, etc we were unsuccessful. Failure was ultimately attributed to "core driver package" corruption.
3) All other components of CS4 have continued to work just fine, including Acrobat, as well as scanning to pdf from my HP printer, "saving" Word docs as pdf. But I have been getting by without Adobe PDF Printer.
4) It was suggested that we completely uninstall CS4 and reinstall it. Since I knew CS5.5 was soon to be released, I opted to wait.
5) I now have a boxed educational version of CS5.5 and a licensed, educational DVD of MSOffice 2010 Pro.
6) So I think I have everything to proceed, but I am a bit uncertain about the correct sequence to do this.
7) One other wrinkle is that KIS2012 has just been released. Upgrade will require that I first uninstall KIS2011.
Questions:
1. Should I perform the Office upgrade first, or should I upgrade Adobe CS first?
2. I assume, given the unresolved issues with the Adobe PDF Printer in my Acrobat 9 component of CS4, that I should perform a complete uninstall of CS4 & perhaps all Adobe Products (Including Adobe AIR), then run the CS4-5 removal tool, and only then attempt to cleanly install CS5.5?
3. Would it be advisable -- to avoid potential subtle AV or firewall issues -- to perform the Office and CS upgrades with KIS uninstalled (taking into account the requisite security considerations)?
If Adobe staff monitor this board, and if they would like the details/case number of my recent extended Tech Support incident, please let me know, and I will provide it via PM.
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RM

Hello, mylenium:
Thanks for your reply.
Kindly indulge my concern about this.
I am not a computer geek, but I have been working with PCs long enough to know that it often helps to plan ahead.
I am just looking to get a clean, uncorrupted install of CS5.5 DS Educational, with minimal risk.
Adobe CS is a LARGE, complex package, deeply integrated into the OS and other programs, and installation of which has been troublesome from time to time over the years.
And it has certainly cost me countless hours of frustration recently, trying to resolve the PDF Printer mess, especially since TS ultimately left my system in worse shape than it was when I first called.
I am not looking for guarantees or assurances.
I am really just looking for answers to my original questions.
(As far as the security stuff is concerned, I have the info I need on that from another source.)
So:
1) You say, "you will have to run the Cleaner Tool eventually", but do not say at what point in the process. I assume I will need to follow the tutorial posted in the Help section of the CS web site.
2) You say, "...None of that has anything to do with Microsoft's apps". Could you please tell me, though, whether I should perform the Office upgrade FIRST, or the Adobe CS5.5 upgrade FIRST?
3) I am confused by the "dumb file overwrite process" you mention. If I will be UNinstalling CS4 and running a cleanup tool prior to cleanly installing CS5.5, what files would remain to be over-written? (I am not planning an in-place upgrade from CS4 to CS5.5.)
Thanks very much for your patience and consideration,
daledoc1

CS3 (on Windows 7) upgrade to CS4

Hello -
I currently have CS3 Master Collection running on Windows 7 64bit Ultimate RC. I know that CS3 is not certified to run on 64bit systems and yes I know that my version of Win 7 is a beta build.
So my question is:
- Once I get the *real* Win 7 OS later this month, would it be ok to install CS3 on there and then the upgrade to CS4?
...or
- Should I install a Win XP 32bit OS, install CS3, upgrade to CS4, then upgrade to Win 7?
I realize any which way I go, I'll have to de-activate, wipe clean the HDD, and then reinstall with whichever methods you experts recommend. Or maybe some other way you all can think of that I may not be seeing here.

I understand your point here BUT.....
....your method that you are describing sounds to me like I have to purchase a FULL CS4 version rather than an upgrade version....correct? Or does the upgrade version just need the serial / registration / activation number, code or whatever from my current CS3 and not necessarily be installed?
So here's what I was thinking that I could do:
- Buy Win7
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- Install CS3
- Buy CS4 (UPGRADE Version)
- Install it
- Start using it!!
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Upgrading from CS4 to CS5 Prod Premium

Please excuse me if this has been discussed (although I only found one short thread relating to my question).
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I am currently running CS4.2.1 Do I have to deactivate my current version before I attempt the upgrade?
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I had the CS3 Master Collection, which was recently upgraded to CS4. Before the upgrade, I kept getting message that the Illustrator wouldn't update. All other apps in the collection updated just find. The CS4 upgrade ran just fine. In addition a CS3 uninstall ran to completion. The system has since been booted a number of time.
I am still getting messages that the CS3 Illustrator is trying to upgrade and can not. Also, I still have a set of icons in my startup menu for the old CS3 with the icons disabled.
Any advice on how to fix these? I am running Windows XP. There is nothing in the Control Panel; Add/Remove Programs list to run related to CS3 any longer.

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Uninstall CS2 after upgrade to CS4 - is there a new walktrough

Just upgraded from CS2 Premium to CS4 Premium on Mac 0SX 10.5.6, but left CS2 on there as I wanted to copy over a few preset files etc from CS2 to CS4.
Now I want to remove CS2. I've got an old document link for removing CS2 but it mentions removing directories that I know CS4 has installed or shares (e.g. Adobe Utilities and Adobe Updater)
Is there a new walkthrough or utility to remove CS2 once you have upgraded to CS4?

Buko
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In your apps folder will be a folder call 'Adobe Creative Suite 2'. Within this is an' uninstallers' folder which contains the file 'How to uninstall.pdf'. This file is reproduced (as far as I can tell) at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=331301
This talks you through the various folders/files to remove.
BUT BEWARE - this was written before CS3/4 existed and as my post (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b82bde) points out, there will be some folders it suggests you remove, but that CS4 actually need (e.g. Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities folder).
I'm seeking a new 'How to Remove CS2 after installing CS4' document myself.
Have spoken to Adobe Tech support today and their suggestion was to "not remove any files/folders you think CS4 may need'.
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Is it still possible to upgrade from CS4 to CS6 after the upgrade offer ended in 2012? I have not found the option to do so.

My family owns and operates a non-franchise entertainment facility (miniature golf, laser tag, arcade, pizza, parties...). I have a design background, so among the many things I do here I'm also able to create marketing materials and an online presence in-house which would be too expensive for us to outsource. Over a five year period, that's given us a software cost of right at $1 per day since our CS3 license ran around $1800. Our customers are the public, and the package we try to push for walk-in traffic costs $50 for four people. In exchange, they get unlimited mini golf, a game of laser tag, and a large pizza. Not a bad deal. If we were to earn $1800 from that group of four every five years, assuming they spent $50 each visit, that'd bring them here close to two times every three months. For our type of business in a city of 118,000 tight-fisted Germans, that's about right.
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As far as Adobe's policy change announcement goes, I have no idea how it was announced. I DO know I was not sent an email notification, though they have my email address and record that I'm a CS3 owner. Presumably it was announced somewhere on Adobe's website, and further disseminated through various digital and print trade publications. I respect Adobe's right to not reverse its decision. If our business decided to put a sign on the front doors (since we don't have contact info for all of our past customers) saying we'd closed that night at 5 PM instead of 11 PM as usual, we aren't obligated to let in latecomers. But I'd also recognize their right to be mad at us for wasting their travel time. What I WOULDN'T do is tell them it's THEIR fault for not being proactive and calling ahead to confirm the expectation that our hours are still the same as they've been for the last decade. NOR would I be surprised if we didn't get their $50 that month. These Germans tend to hold grudges.

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I am getting a new computer (PC to a Mac) and have CS4 Student Edition and want to upgrade to CS5 on my new Mac. Is that possible?

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At present I see one of these for sale.
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