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.Īlso, 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 then spent the next couple of hours updating XP with 80+ security patches, IE7 and all my other applications. The options screen popup (at last!!) and I chose the default install location and few minutes later, CS3 was installed and running. I ran the installer and uncompressed the file, which created the installer and executed. 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 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 finally got CS3 to install last night, I decided to vanilla install XP sp2 from scratch using a ghost copy. So it appears that copying the Adobe CS3 folder to a hard drive was the magic incantation that worked for me. This suggest to me that installation was occurring from the DVD even though I had started it from the hard drive. What's really bizarre is that although I started setup from the hard drive copy, the DVD was spinning throughout the installation. Got the same progress window and then finally a regular window telling me to stop firefox and retry. Ran CS3Cleanup levels 1 and 2 and install still wouldn't work.īefore giving up for the night, I tried copying the Adobe CS3 folder from the DVD to a hard drive and ran setup from there. Ended up restoring the registry to a previous state, then found an older version of Windows Installer Cleanup utility that would install. Lots of searching the web for solutions to that, including massive permission changes to the registry, which didn't work. Downloaded the latest version of that, and it wouldn't install complaining about a VBScript error. Then I went down some long involved rabbit holes! The CS3 cleanup script wouldn't run because the Windows Installer Cleanup utility wasn't installed. Install of Photoshop CS3 from the distribution DVD failed. I deactivated and uninstalled the CS3 beta. Dialog disappears and nothing more happens. I had the same problem reported here: start setup, a small dialog saying it was initializing appears and progress bar advances. I have just been through a five-hour nightmare of installing Photoshop CS3, and appear finally to have a successful installation.
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