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_Chayuth_Pirotesak_
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April 21, 2007
Question

Cannot install Photoshop CS3 - Installer just dissappeared

  • April 21, 2007
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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.
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    _Rachel_Keegan_
    Participant
    May 4, 2007
    I have wasted a lot of time today trying to install CS3. I had previously been using the beta version but had uninstalled that several days ago using Add/Remove programs in Windows XP. The problem is exactly the same as described by Ken Morris in message #45 (and my computer set up is virtually identical to his). I don't mind doing simple things like disabling virus protection or copying files to my hard drive if this will solve the problem, but I don't see why I should have to do anything more complicated than this when I have paid so much for the software. I haven't contacted Adobe yet but am wondering whether Ken (or anyone else) has a simple solution (seems unlikely in view of the other postings in this thread)
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    _polinux_
    Participant
    May 3, 2007
    Hey Guys, I think i solved it!!
    All you 've got to do is to install "WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe"

    1.Try to install Dreamweaver for the first time (it stops in initiliazing...)
    2.Open your "Doccuments" (from the Desktop)
    3.In there you will find a folder named "Downloaded Installations"
    4.In the folder ".\Downloaded Installations\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\redist" you will find the "WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe"
    5.Install it!!!!!("WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe")
    6. You have to reboot in order to complete the above installation
    7. Now you should install Dreamweaver just fine!

    :)
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    _Lylia_Winters_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    Nevermind, I got it! :)
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    _Lylia_Winters_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    Its not working for me hun.. sorry :( One odd thing I noticed is I'm getting two new install folders instead of one. One had the setup.exe and payloads folder and the other has the rest in it.
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    _Six666_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    Lets see again.

    1. Start the (Photoshop Extended) Setup as usual and let him disappear.
    2. Now You have \Adobe\Installers\XXXXXXXXXXXXXX\resources\common\scripts folder
    in which you make changes (ContainerProxy.js).
    3. Then You run again Setup.exe in \Adobe\Installers\XXXXXXXXXXXXXX and make installation to end.
    4. Now start the DreamWeaver Setup and let him disappear.
    5. Now you have new folder \Adobe\Installers\YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY\resources\common\scripts.
    6. Make changes in ContainerProxy.js and run Setup.exe in \Adobe\Installers\YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY folder.
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    _Lylia_Winters_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    Alright, now Im getting an error that says "Sessions has dependancies that cannot be satisfied" Blech.. what next...
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    _Lylia_Winters_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    No go. Nothing even starts up with that. God this is getting so irritating. Thank you for helping tho. I really do appriciate it. I got so happy when I got Photoshop to install lol.
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    _Six666_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    After you have made changes in ContainerProxy.js You must run installer Setup.exe in Adobe\Installers\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX folder.
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    _Lylia_Winters_
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2007
    Nope Six666 even after the js editing I still get the same thing.
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    _dcole_
    Participant
    May 3, 2007
    I'm afraid I haven't waded through all the previous posts to see if my point has been raised already but just wanted to say that I could not install PSCS3 or Dreamweaver CS3 on a Vista Ultimate machine - the setup window disappeared - until an Adobe Tech told me to try -

    1. Create a new Administrator
    2. Install the program
    3. Get rid of the new Administrator.

    This worked for me on both programs.

    David
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