Error message: 150:30 Licensing for this product has stopped working. Nothing here has worked. Now what?

I get this message for all of my Adobe Creative Suite CS4 applications. Just loaded everything onto a new computer from my backup drive. I have tried all of the recommendations here. I don't know what to do now. None of the files exist that I'm supposed to either delete or change. The Licensing Repair Tool would not launch.

You're welcome. It's kind of hard explaining Terminal scripts to newcomers, but you did very well.
Check the illustrator forums on this one. Illustrator
There is a downloadable installer for your suite if needed. Have your serial numbers ready if it comes to that.
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I received error 148.3 (licensing for this product has stopped working). I looked up the error, but the fix says it is only for "... Creative Suite 3 or 4 products, Acrobat 8 or 9, Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8, Director, and Technical Communication Suite." and RoboHelp is not mentioned. Is RoboHelp part of the Technical Communication Suite? I tried phoning support, but the person had not even heard of RoboHelp. Does anyone know how I rebuild the license file? Note that Acrobat professional comes up okay. I need to compile soon for a product release and feel so frustrated.
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And we're back. Writing the question made me check what the Technical Communication Suite is. It includes RoboHelp, so I went ahead with the LicenseRecover as recommended on the Adobe site and the system now works.

I have an Adobe Crearive Suite 4 and got Error 148:3 (licensing for this product stopped working)

error 148:3 has disable my use of Adobe Acrobat as well as the use of the Adobe Creative Suite 4.
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Cannot start indesign in Creative suite - Licensing for this product has stopped working?

I uninstalled and deactivated my creative suite 4 on my old mac and installed it on my new iMac with Mavericks, ive updated and registered it, and the other programs work but Indesign wont start...
i get a message saying:
Licensing for this product has stopped working
This product has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched.
If you continue to see this message after restarting your computer, please contact either your IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 5
http://www.adobe.com/support/
(incase your wondering i have tried restarting)
Any help much appreciated!

i tried reinstalling it completely and it seems to have fixed it,

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I'm having an installation problem, with Adobe CS4 Design Premium for Windows on Vista(64). For technicality purposes, I believe everything installed fine, but I have not been able to open the programs even once, which apparently means this is an installation issue.
Here's the situation:
I had a trial version of Photoshop CS4, it expired, I uninstalled it (or at least went to Control Panel-->Programs And Features--->"Uninstall"), bought Adobe Premier with my student discount, installed it with the new serial number and the 2 CDs without any problems (so I thought), but now every time I try to open any CS4 Program (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, etc.--anything but Acrobat Pro or Bridge CS4) I get a message saying, 'Licensing for this product has expired.'
I found an equivalent issue with Macs and there appears to be a quick fix:
"The tech had me remove APPLICATION SUPPORT > ADOBE > ADOBE PCD > cache > cache.db (to trash)" This apparently solved the problem.
Does anyone know an equivalent fix for Windows PCs?
I've have tried downloading the fix from the following website:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html
(Running this multiple times, rebooting, etc.) but I believe the above website is just for problems of "License has stopped working" and not "Licensing for this product has expired"
I also tried setting my laptop's date/time back to May 31st 2009 following these instructions:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/494/cpsid_49485.html
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Any chance someone knows the appropriate Windows File to remove to solve this problem? Or have any other advice?
Many thanks in advance,
Kevin
PS--I've tried to stay professional about this situation, but it really has me livid. I'm appalled that something that cost me 300+ dollars (and I am fully aware it costs most honest people significantly more) could have caused me to waste the better part of a day, and get so frustrated, and I am still no closer to a solution. If it doesn't get resolved soon I am tempted to try returning the software as 'defective' (which for all intents and purposes it is) or never buy an Adobe product again. My friends have less trouble with the cracks/keygens/etc out there, and they're up $300+ on me.

UPDATE:
So, I took John T. Smith's advice (thanks for the phone number--relatively short wait time compared to the other number I had tried), and called Customer Service. I got the usual run-around, where the first guy wanted me to try all the things I described in the original post. Had me try something else (which involve reinstalling) which didn't work. Finally, the next gal I talked with admitted she didn't know the solution, and the problem would be 'upgraded' to the next higher level of presumably smarter tech people. I asked the time frame for this, and she said 1-2 days, which I wasn't happy about, and finally spoke with her supervisor. This person walked me through the uninstallation, and had 'some files' I should delete. AND FINALLY, I GOT WHAT I WANTED:
He said if I just removed/deleted the following file:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobePCD\Cache\Cache.db
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From what I read on a Mac forum with the same problem, it seems like I might not have had to uninstall/reinstall the whole suite (which I wish I'd tried, because it would have saved me nearly 2 hours).
But at any rate, everything seems to be working. I wrongly assumed the PC version would have had a different culprit file to be removed. I wish I'd searched my hard drive for the AdobePCD folder earlier. But...now I am happy.
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Today my CS3 gave this error, although I've been using CS3 without any problems with VISTA since last April! See product & OP sys info at btm.
I searched for help, I found under TechNote kb402004 the implied solution! Well not quite since it is NOT working! I spent today over 8 hrs in an attempt to fix this.
The error in detail: Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help."
OK, I am my own IT administrator, I called Adobe 1-800-833-6687 but after selecting option 1) on the phone just rings and rings, no answer for about 1.5 hrs!!! So I gave up!!!
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1) Doesn't do anything, same problem!
2) is the same result!
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Not quite! It failed. SO I had to go through all the above again to clean it out from VISTA. Download again! Done this 3 times before it finally started to install. Of course that is the old version, why would Adobe be kind enough to have the updated version available to install in the first place??? OK so downloaded another 180 MB or so, tried to update! Well the update crashed 4 times too, before CS3 finally was updated to 10.0.1. Then I had to register and activate CS3 again! Great it should work, well so I though!
Well not quite it gave me the same error!!!! SO what is wrong with CS3??? I need help! Thank all of you who can help me!! System Details:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 10.0.1 (10.0.1x20071012 [20071012.r.1644 09:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
Operating System: Windows NT
Version: 6.0
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:6 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 2400 MHz
Built-in memory: 3070 MB
Free memory: 1719 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1681 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 55 %
Image cache levels: 6
Serial number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\LASZLO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
Startup, 291.7G, 69.6G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
Installed plug-ins:
ADM 3.10x21
ASDStrm 1.03x2
Accented Edges 10.0 (x101)
Anaglyph Flip NO VERSION
Angled Strokes 10.0 (x101)
AntiGhost NO VERSION
Average 10.0 (10.0x20070321 [20070321.m.1480 16:39:00 cutoff; m branch])
BMP 10.0.1 (10.0.1x20070928 [20070928.r.1642 08:15:00 cutoff; r branch])
Bas Relief 10.0 (x101)
Camera Raw 4.3.1
Chalk & Charcoal 10.0 (x101)
Charcoal 10.0 (x101)
ChromaSolarize NO VERSION
Chrome 10.0 (x101)
Cineon 10.0 (10.0x20070321 [20070321.m.1480 16:39:00 cutoff; m branch])
Circle to Square NO VERSION
Clouds 10.0 (10.0x20070321 [20070321.m.1480 16:39:00 cutoff; m branch])

Which operating system?
Try
Win: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-licensing-stopped-windows.html
Mac: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/error-licensing-stopped-mac-os.html

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