Photoshop cs3 installation freezes

I have purchase photoshop cs3 and dreamweaver. Dreamweaver installed with no problems but when I tried to install photoshop everything looks good until the installation gets to 8.46% it freezes during shared components. Tried cleaning up components and re installing, many times, same result.

If you bought the download from Adobe directly you can go to the My Adobe link on their site.
Otherwise:
http://prodesigntools.com/tag/ddl
Make sure to follow their instructions to the letter.
-Noel

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Hello,
Recently Photoshop CS3 Extended freezes when I launch it on my Windows 7 (64 bit) computer. The splash screen appears but then it just stops working (usually on initializing Tools). It then asks to exit or search for help.
I have read several things so far. To fix it I tried:
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- resetting all tools
- deleting the Photoshop preferences file.
- deleting my printer from the control panel (some others said printer drivers could cause it)
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Thank you for your replys!
@Mylenium: I have not recently changed the graphics driver, anyway, this post will contain some more detailed information.
Since the system does not hang (it is only PS) I could take a screenshot of it:
And yeah, the message from the event log was very helpful indeed, I should have looked it up earlier ^^;
Photoshop.exe
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470fd6cb
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c0000005
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b7cb5b9b-9606-11e1-95e9-001e8c1fad2b
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I bought Photoshop CS3 a few months ago, but I lost the installer disc. I still have product key. I only need a link for Photoshop CS3 installer 30day trial, and then I can activate it. Could someone give me link to the Photoshop CS3 installer? (Not the extended version)
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tbalint444444 wrote:
I bought Photoshop CS3 a few months ago,
Obviously not from Adobe. It hasn't been available from Adobe since 2008.
If you registered it with Adobe, the serial and download link should be available by logging in to your Adobe account.
Try http://prodesigntools.com/download-adobe-cs4-and-cs3-free-trials-here.html
If successful, KEEP A COPY locally for future use. No guarantee that these links will hang around forever.
Photoshop Std and Extended is the same file. Standard version or Extended will be unlocked when you enter your serial number.
The installer will recognize your serial as a Standard version and that's what'll be installed on your machine.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended freezes on startup under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - No splash screen

I installed my licensed copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended today as part of my install a bunch of software after a reinstall of Windows (due to viruses). I did a completely fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I've used Photoshop CS3 Extended for quite a while now so I know what to expect on startup but it was previously installed under Windows XP Professional (32-bit). Figured I would give Windows 7 a chance this time around.
Google searches aren't turning up anything. When I attempt to start the application, I get a window with the title "Adobe Photoshop CS3" (no "Extended" - I seem to recall the title changes later) and the toolbar appears. However, no splash screen appears and no Product Activation wizard appears - the application simply freezes on an empty frame and a toolbar. I've tried running Photoshop as Administrator (right-click, "Run As Administrator"), but nothing changed there. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I tried upgrading to CS3 10.0.1. Nothing works. The application simply freezes before it gets anywhere.
I tried calling Adobe Support since this technically falls under installation issues but their phone support systems are down today. Go figure.
Edit: I hooked into Photoshop with the Visual Studio debugger and every single thread is executing some variation of WaitForSingleObject() or WaitForMultipleObjects(). The main thread is "executing" somewhere in AdobeLM_libFNP.dll (at address 09619d81 - if I had debugging symbols for CS3, I could provide a function). There are nine threads "running" at the point the freeze occurs - but all of them are technically suspended due to the functions they are executing - and one thread is in a suspended state.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Hang
Date:          7/17/2010 6:16:25 PM
Event ID:      1002
Task Category: (101)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Description:
The program Photoshop.exe version 10.0.1.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: d0c
Start Time: 01cb2616be79e36f
Termination Time: 2
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe
Report Id: 06f5fbff-920a-11df-9d69-001fd023417e
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-07-18T01:16:25.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1615</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
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    <Data>10.0.1.0</Data>
    <Data>d0c</Data>
    <Data>01cb2616be79e36f</Data>
    <Data>2</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe</Data>
    <Data>06f5fbff-920a-11df-9d69-001fd023417e</Data>
    <Binary>430072006F00730073002D0074006800720065006100640000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
And, according to the Event Viewer, the "Binary" data translates to a zero-terminated Unicode string of "Cross-thread".
My Visual Studio analysis was far more informative. All threads are hung inside of WaitForSingleObject() and WaitForMultipleObjects() calls and the DLL in question appears to be FlexNet-related. I did forget to mention that I also even manually started the FlexNet service in case, for some strange reason, Photoshop was waiting for it to start. That also did not work.
(And there is nothing in the Action Center control panel either despite the message saying there might be more information there.)
Edit: The timestamp above might be a little odd-looking. I didn't originally see anything in Event Viewer until I clicked the first button to send an Error Report. Mostly I just skipped that part of killing a process.

Photoshop CS3 installs but won't run on new OS install

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Greetings.
Ive recently decided to give Photoshop CS3 a try. However, i am experiencing urecoverable crashes (Windows freezes, have to restart the pc) when performing various actions. It seems to be happening only when something is going on in/with the document window, or when any modifications are made to the opened image. Using menus and other interface elements doesnt seem to cause any problems. The crashes usually happen a few minutes after the software has loaded.
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>i'm not sure what you mean when you say "crashes". is it locking up? ending or what? just photoshop or your whole system?
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Try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
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[email protected] wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> thanks Freeagent - Well, I would obviously install them in different
> folders but knowing Adobe I would be naive in the extreme to think
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> checking first...
>
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bonjours tous le monde
j'ai un probleme avec Photoshop CS 3 ex
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j'ai reinstalle Mais Le meme probleme ..
qq a l'aide SVp
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MErciii

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