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seven10s
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May 7, 2013
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photoshop cs3 won't install in windows 8

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photoshop cs3 won't install in windows 8

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terryneal
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October 30, 2014

Turn off your firewall for 15 minutes.  Close browser and I recommend other applications.  When you put the disk into the tray go to Windows Explorer and find the disk. (Drive D or E or whatever)  Open the folder and locate AUTOPLAY  (very important!) Right-click on the folder and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.  Complete the installation.   When I did this Photoshop CS3 installed fine.

Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
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May 7, 2013

What made you think it would be compatible with Windows 8?

Chances are good that with some (perhaps much) reconfiguration and tweaking, it could be made to install and run.  In fact, I may have even tried it and succeeded at one time or another (I know I definitely got Photoshop CS2 to install and work in Win 8 at one point).

In any case, it might be helpful if you'd describe what's gone wrong in just a teeny bit more detail..

Did you run the installer As Administrator?

-Noel

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seven10sAuthor
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May 7, 2013

I’ve been using cs3 for a long time, love it! Recently I decided it was time to upgrade from w7 to w8 on my Gateway desktop. I made the upgrade OK and cs3 continued to work fine - it just stayed installed through the update. Because I was having lots of problems getting the metro apps to work along with various other things I contacted Microsoft and talked to ‘him’ for over an hour as he ran my computer from there. He got to the end and said you’d better do a ‘refresh’ which reinstalls w8 and doesn’t bother your files but removes your programs of which one was Ps cs3. When I got the refresh done w8 worked really well so I set about reinstalling all of my programs. When I got to CS3 it would load Bridge and various other components but photoshop itself wouldn’t load. It always said something about ‘they failed.’ I’ve gone to various forums and have uninstalled Norton and fiddled a bit with the directory but have had no success. I keep thinking there’s something to click or check or ....

Do you have any ideas where I should go from here. I really hate to spend the many hundreds of dollars when it worked in w8 once before. (?)

Thanks for your response, Noel

Sent from Windows Mail

Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
Legend
May 7, 2013

Here's a suggestion:

Go through the process described here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Then try an install of Photoshop CS3 again.

-Noel

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