Deactivating CS3 Design Premium

My vendor sent me the wrong version of CS3. The uninstall
programs says
that I need to deactivate it before i uninstall.
Unfortunately, nothing tells you where/how to deactivate this
product.
Can anyone help?
Greg

So you didn't use the programs? You activate from one of the
programs the
first time you open it .. it pops up. If you never did that,
then it's not
activated.
In DW, the help menu has a section where the first item is
Registration,
then Activate, then Deactivate and then Updates. You don't
have that?
Nancy Gill
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"Greg Scheeler" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f46ohl$erh$[email protected]..
> there is no 'activate' or 'deactivate' on the help menu.
there is a
> 'register'.... is that the same as 'activate'?
>
> all i did was install the software (with the key)...
>
> just need to remove so that i can install the correct
version when i get
> it on friday....
>
> thanks again.
>
> greg
>
> Nancy - Adobe Comm. Expert wrote:
>> There are two options there. If you didn't activate,
Activate should be
>> available. If you did, deactivate should be
available.
>>

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium Student Upgrade?
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