Problem Installing Photoshop CS3

Just loaded down Photoshop Adobe CS3 once I tried to run the setup I got the message that the installlation had failed and to contact support, no further comments given Can anybody help please

Wolfgang I would recommend reviewing the installation log files to determine the cause of the failure. You can find details on how to locate and interpret the installation log files at Troubleshoot installation with install logs | CS3, CS4. You are welcome to post any specific error you discover to this discussion.

Similar Messages

Having problems installing Photoshop CS3...

Hello, I have been trying to install Photoshop CS3 on my new computer which has Windows 7 and everytime I install it and than click on the Icon to start the program and register it, it will paritially load (so just an outline of the window with Photoshop in the top left and the Minimize/Restore/Close on the top right as well as the File - Help tabs but if I click on those nothing happens becuase it is in the middle of loading.) the window but it will get stuck loading and eventually I will get a Not Responding window... Is there an update or something that I need to get Photoshop CS3 to work on windows 7?

This forum is for suite specific issues. Please post in the Photoshop forum.
Bob

Problems installing photoshop cs3

I have downloaded the trial version of photoshop cs3 from the adobe website. after starting the setup and the system check i get the error that it cannot carry on with the installation because it conflicts with CS3! i have noted that there are 2 cs3 icons in my dock it's been opened only once. how do I get it installed??? Can anyone please help me??? thank you!
alex

Hi AndreTheGeek;
I would like to reply to your comment about it might not apply to you on a demo.
I am here to tell you that it most certainly does apply in the case of a demo that you use the Adobe uninstall first.
I had a nightmare trying to figure out why I could not get CS3 to install after demoing PS CS3. After what felt like eternities, I finally found someone at Adobe who was able to tell me the error of my ways. It seems I had gotten so used to the idea of simply trashing applications I did that with the demo of PS CS3. He explained to me that that left behind enough bits and pieces that it was causing me troubles when I attempted to install CS3. He told me where to find the uninstall script. Once I ran that the installation worked like a charm.
Allan

Installing photoshop CS3 on Windows 7

Wondered if anyone else experienced problems installing Photoshop CS3 on Windows 7?

nette wrote:
Wondered if anyone else experienced problems installing Photoshop CS3 on Windows 7?
It works, but there are known problems with installation and use so you should consult the Adobe support forums. If you're trying to install it on a new PC, just get the latest upgrade package from Adobe. You'll get A LOT more out of the latest version than you would CS3 since CS3 doesn't support the newer technology and lacks hardware acceleration.

Trouble installing Photoshop CS3

I've just recently had a clean install on my Apple iMac. I'm now re-installing all the software that I need. I'm having a problem installing Photoshop CS3. I have the folder, the serial number, and its on the list of products registered with Adobe. How do I install?

If your lucky, using the photoshop cs3 unistaller in the Applications>Utilites>Adobe Installers>Add or Remove Adobe Photoshop CS3
might work for unistalling cs3.
Then doing a fresh install from the dvd or downloader installer might work.
If not, then you'll have to download and run the CC Cleaner Tool
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
Then search around on your hard drive (check especially hard drive>library>application support adobe, as well as Applications)
and remove all the bits you can find, then reinstall from your original installation media.
Do you have any later versions of photoshop like cs4 already installed?

Difficulties installing photoshop cs3

Ok here is basically what is going on my friend gave me cs3 on disk which he said had the serial number on it and whatever else basically i installed the program and after trying to get it to work with the serial number that came with the disk i then had no luck so i dragged each component to the trash i then tried to download cs3 from adobe's website just the trial version after it downloaded the installation tells me that it wont install because i still have cs3 on my system but where the **** is it and how do i get rid of it if i already dragged all the cs3 programs i had on my applications folder to my trash which i thought was the normal way of removing programs on a mac and apparently it isnt anyway im working on a new macbook pro and if anyone can help out before i end up heading to the genius bar it would be helpful .

nette wrote:
Wondered if anyone else experienced problems installing Photoshop CS3 on Windows 7?
It works, but there are known problems with installation and use so you should consult the Adobe support forums. If you're trying to install it on a new PC, just get the latest upgrade package from Adobe. You'll get A LOT more out of the latest version than you would CS3 since CS3 doesn't support the newer technology and lacks hardware acceleration.

Having problems re-installing Photoshop CS3 onto my Mac

Hi, I am having a few problems with re-installing Photoshop CS3 (consisting of licensed versions of CS and the CS3 upgrade) onto my Mac after a repair. I run a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Powerbook and OSX mountain Lion). On installation I had to ok the following error messages...."Could not import clipboard because unexpected end of file was encountered" and "Could not Synchronize colour settings because of program error" CS3 is running but simple action requests such as levels are unavailable in the batch processing and Adobe Bridge quits unexpectedly all the time aswell. Any advice on how to get a quality re-install and/or how to fix these problems? Any help much appreciated:)
Ian.

I do not know what I did differently this time, but I finally got this printer to install. I wish I could leave a better solution in case others are running into a similar problem; however, I honestly have nothing to say besides uninstalling everything and then installing it again using the HP Printer Install Wizard.

Adobe Creative CS3 Design Premium - Problem with Photoshop CS3

Hi,
I have been trying to install Adobe Creative CS3 Design Premium for 2 days. The problem is when I try to install the software the Photoshop CS3 is gray out. I can install the all except the Photoshop. I have no idea what is wrong but has failed to install photoshop cs3. Do I need to unistall the Photoshop CS2 in order to make it work. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

I have been looking at my error logs to try to see what my problem is and it only says the word error once at the bottom and I can't really tell what the error is for. It says successful on one line and then error on the next line. Is tehre anyone here that knows these logs well and can tell me what my problem is by reading my error logs?
[       1] Tue Sep 8 11:23:16 2009 INFO
Completing installation for payload at /Volumes/Adobe CS3 Design Premium/Adobe CS3 Design Premium/Bootstrapper.dmg
[       1] Tue Sep 8 11:23:16 2009 DEBUG
InstallPayload succeeded.
[       0] Tue Sep 8 11:23:16 2009 ERROR
Log of: object
isRunning {string}: 0
Log of: string
    0 {LOOP}: Reference to object up 0
percentComplete {string}: 100
Log of: string
    0 {string}: 1
Log of: string
        0 {LOOP}: Reference to object up 0
    1 {string}: 0
Log of: string
        0 {LOOP}: Reference to object up 0
    2 {string}: 0
Log of: string
        0 {LOOP}: Reference to object up 0
message {object}: [object Object]
Log of: object
    code {string}: 0
Log of: string
        0 {LOOP}: Reference to object up 0
    args {object}: [object Object]
---end of log

Installing Photoshop CS3 on Windows 8

How can i install Photoshop CS3 on Windows 8 - install does not complete - error message "Installer Database corrupt". The Abobe help chat system is unable to help.
Rebooting my computer and re-downloading the software from the Adobe website for another clean install made no difference.
Is this a compatability problem and if so how can I fix it?

Something else to try:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-installer-database-corrupt-install-1.html

Can't install Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP SP3

Hello, I recently have reformated my machine and installed XP SP3
sadly now, I can't install Photoshop CS3, when I double-click on Setup.exe, it show me a small bar/dialog which tells me it's extracting files, but after that, NOTHING HAPPENS
I left it for an hour, and again, nothing happens. I checked my Task Manager and I found that Setup.exe and Msiexec.exe are running but with completely 0% of system resource.
I tried everything possible, nothing worked for me, I really need Photoshop CS3 for my work.
thanks advance
JohnX

I hear ya. that's on an existing system with an upgrade. i've solved (well, resolved) a remote desktop problem with a rollback to sp2.
but on the clean xp pro sp3 system (1st app install after anti-virus and firewall), the cs3 install took about 10 minutes. very fast very smooth.

Cannot install Photoshop CS3 - Installer just dissappeared

I have an issue installing Photoshop CS3 as follow:
I have removed all Photoshop CS3 Beta manually (Use control panel, deleted files and registries) as instructed in this web and get rid of all thing involved Adobe out of my computer.
When I clicked Setup.exe, a setup windows with progressive bar (See in http://www.thetaforce.com/image/cs3installer.jpg ) appeared shortly and then disappear!
Then nothing is happenned further. No error message. It just disappeared. I wait for an hour but nothing happened.
I tried to run Windows in clean mode (msconfig -> disable unneccessary services) and also disable Antivirus and Firewall etc. But this problem persists.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium (32Bit) and have Intel Centrino Duo 2.0GHz with 1.5GB of Ram (DDR2) and 100GB HDD. Graphic shared Intel 945GM Express Chipset.

I finally got CS3 to install last night, I decided to vanilla install XP sp2 from scratch using a ghost copy.
I then ran the installer from the same physical disk but diffrent partition and I got 2 errors, CS3 and shared components failed to install. I was just about to throw the towel in, having cleanned my pc back to nothing but base XP sp2 install and then I thought why not put the whole 460mb package on the root or C:.
I ran the installer and uncompressed the file, which created the installer and executed. The options screen popup (at last!!) and I chose the default install location and few minutes later, CS3 was installed and running.
I then spent the next couple of hours updating XP with 80+ security patches, IE7 and all my other applications.
This may seem a bit drastic, but I can only conclude that this problem had nothing to do with CS3beta but rather a conflict with one or some XP security updates / patches.
Also, there must be something inherently wrong with the CS3 installer scripts, perhaps absolute rather dynamic file addressing as it just would not work if I put the installer on a different drive.
I've burnt nigh on 20 hours on this upgrade and finally have it running.
Focusing on the positives, my pc is running a lot quicker and has less bloatware than before, however getting a PC to be stable takes a lot of time and effort, which I now have to contend with. In fact, IE 7 is already crashing more than it did previsouly!
Looking on the bright side, I finally have access to my CS3beta PSDs with LR working in harmony.
I do hope others can solve the problem in a less drastic manner. For me, I felt it better to work from a know XP build to isolate the many variables.

Cannot install photoshop CS3!!

Hello there. I currently have Windows vista installed on a laptop. I recently tried to install Photoshop Extended. However, when it get's to "initializing Adobe Photoshop" It just stops...nothing pops up. I had it installed on my computer before then I had to restore my computer using recovery cds. I was able to install Adobe After Efects but can't install photoshop CS3. It has an entry in my add/remove program in control panel but when I click uninstall nothing happens.

yeah, i had the same problem as you too, but i got it fixed =]
I think this happens because we uninstalled photoshop incorrectly
heres how i did it, its kinda risky though...
go to your start and click on run and type in "regedit"
then from the beginning of your registry (by this i mean go all the way top of your registry and click on your My Computer) hold ctrl+f and search for "photoshop"
delete (the folder) everything that is related to adobe products (careful though, some registry are not related to adobe...)
just press F3 to search next...
you might want to try other search terms, i used "cs3" and "adobe" but the bad thing about this is a lot of other adobe products show up
hope this helps...
oh yeah.. i am on windows xp, but i think on vista should be the same...

Installing Photoshop CS3 on Server 10.5.1

I'm trying to install Photoshop CS3 on a G4 tower running Leopard Server.
The installer crashes almost instantly-- icon bounces a few times in the dock and disappears.
I've tried permisisons repair, safe boot, and installing from root user. i've also tried using an external DVD drive just because I was running out of ideas. I'm in the process of creating a disk image of the install DVD to see if I can install from that with better luck.
As my license allows, I've installed CS3 on a secondary machine (laptop), and have had no problems. I also had CS3 on the computer before installing Server (read: the install DVD is fine).
Any ideas? thanks in advance.

The system is at a commercial photo studio-- and the server is new. The machine used to be a secondary retouching machine, but it wasn't used much. However, there still is the occasional need for a second retouching machine, so I wanted to install photoshop on the server for the rare time when it might still be needed as a workstation.

Can't install photoshop CS3

I need to use an older version of Photoshop. Adobe said it was my mac.
I'm on 10.6.8 and can't install photoshop CS3. I've uninstalled and when I try to install, I get: please insert CS4. Doesn't sound right to me.
I called Adobe and they wanted $69 to fix the problem. They looked at my crash reports and said it was my mac. I was afraid to let them touch my mac so I didn't go for it. He said I will have problems with other Adobe installations if I don't hire them to fix my mac.
Can anyone read crash reports and help me out? I'm not sure which to include, mac or adobe.

Roaku wrote:
I've tried that.
It works so so on another computer, but when I want to copy the files there is a pop-up saying that such an action cannot be done.
I still cannot install it even on that computer.
Is there another way? Or am I forced to buy CS3 all over again.
Using Windows Explorer I have copied a CD's files and directories to a directory on my hard drive to install from there... I have NEVER seen a pop-up saying I could not copy the CD's files and directories

Failed to install Photoshop CS3 in Windows Vista SP1

Hi there, I dunno why I cannot install Photoshop CS3 after upgrading my OS to Vista SP1. I have searched for lots of "solution" in Google but they seem to be useless and I am still unable to install PS in my computer.
Does anyone here has the above situation and would you mind to tell me how to solve this problem?
Thanks a lot.

Hello.
I got almost the same problem as he got.
I just got Windows Vista 32 bit version. I got it installed before but suddenly I cud dent launch the program, and then I re installed the software, in due to I cud install it again. But I was wrong. It gives this this error: http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unbenannt1mb5.jpg.

Problem Installing Photoshop CS3

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for