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zeem81
zeem81
Participant
September 13, 2013
Question

The licience of this product is no longer valid

  • September 13, 2013
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I have got this message since this morning..

When I try to open any of my CS3 software programmes !!

However.. I used photoshop first thing this morning no problem !

The licience of this product is no longer valid

You can not use this product at the moment. To correct this problem, uninstall and reinstall the product or contact system adim or Adobe support to get help.

(sorry.. its in French)

..........since this message I have :

rebooted twice

tried working/opening CS3 whilst 'offline' (unplus internet)

uninstalled all Adobe soft

tried to reinstall CS3 premium (just 4 mostly used programmes)

....... result is

6 errors

nothing has managed to install except acrobat 8

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zeem81
zeem81Author
Participant
September 13, 2013

Sorry...

I didn't actually ask a question...

Can anyone give me an idea as to why this software doesn't work anymore after 5years of no problems ! ?

Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
September 13, 2013

You are not alone and neither was I.  CS3 did this to me a few years ago and I felt helpless to resolve it since Adobe purports to no longer provides support for CS3.  So I hunted thru Google and wherever I could and ended up eventually finding some things that led me to solving the problem.  The best I can do is offer the links I saved from that effort and wish you luck resolving it...

Reinstall CS3 - when normal fails
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/3227705#3227705 (this is what worked for me)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1228877#1228877 (see last posting)

zeem81
zeem81Author
Participant
September 26, 2013

Hello there Ned,

I looked through both your above posts... I read carefully and tried my best to follow. But I am no computer expert.. I have no experience of searching out files and deleting stuff. I like simple - Buy, Install, use peacefully... which is how it was 5 years ago !

I don't understand why and how its all gone wrong between a morning of working normally and all this hassle straight after.

Is it possible that Adobe does something to push you to buy the latest version or subscribe to the cloud ?

WHY do you get a message out of the blue that something you PAID for no longer works how it should ?

This version will not install on the other computers in the office as they are not XP or Vista !

I feel like I am being forced to upgrade when I was quite happy !

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