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I didn't have any problems with installing CS3 Photoshop. I had problems with Illustrator, and the solution was (eventually to reinstall windows) to hunt around in the registry for the folder that wasn't given system level access, it would get to the end and then say it failed to install. I followed all the steps to fix it, but it still kept reverting the registry to user access, so i had to format and reinstall, and after that it installed without a hitch.

I run both XP Pro and Vista Ultimate on my laptop, and they both run fine, as far as speed goes. My laptop has a 1.6 Core Duo, 2GB ram, 256MB Shared Graphics. It gets a 3.1 Vista Rating, but i haven't had issues with lagging. It does take longer to boot up than XP, but once loaded it works fine with the built-in appz. 3rd party stuff, though, is another story. I really do not feel this Vista version is ready for mass producing, it should have been the final RC. If you haven't gotten Vista yet, I would advise waiting till the first service pack comes out. I don't run much from Vista, mostly i use the XP installation, but the programs that i have noticed problems with so far are firefox (random closing), Yahoo Messenger (crashes every 10 minutes), and even occasionaly IE7 and the windows module installer... it just crashes now and then.

Once you've gotten rid of it, do let us know how you did it.

Exactly... so I don't think there's any way it could still be around today and be a supercomputer.

Have you tried uTorrent? That's always been the easiest client for me to use. Why not just re-download without torrents? seeing as you have a fast internet connection, it should only take an hour or two.

why would you spend 5g on upgrading computer parts, when you can spend less than half on a new equivalent system? Every single piece of equipment in there has got to be changed from the original, including power supply and case. The floppy could theoretically be that old... though it would have to be the 3.5 inch model, not the 5 incher, which seems to have been the rage those 20 years ago. Even a regular floppy would be broken or nearly so, simply because of wear and tear on mechanical parts. If you were truly on Vista, i imagine it was a pirated copy and you used an infected bios patch.

Plus, aren't COM, EXE, and PIF the most common types of virus files? That should set off a red flag whenever you see one. Have you tried using something like ERD commander to access windows? You can run a system file repair.... and then deleting MSN, run a regcleaner and get rid of anything you find from MSN Messenger. It might be a running/startup process, because you say that your explorer.exe crashed several times. or did you open MSN and then it started crashing? Edit: On this forum they seem to have successfully gotten rid of it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/91879/maleware-problems/

My configuration is Intel 946 with 2.8 Dual Core, 2 GB ram, SATA 2 HD. I already wrote about my troubles with installing IllustratorCS3. I haven't tried the single versions, but I can confirm that installing CS3 is not a piece of cake. An hour to install it is too long IMO. Admittedly that's the Design Suite, but averaging 15 minutes per program is too long. Dreamweaver 8 installed in about 2 minutes. why the hell does it take ten times longer now? And it still doesn't run smoothly. I found myself reverting back to DW8. This CS3 has been way overhyped. This is what should have been released to beta testers. Not sold as a final product. And by the way, the only way I could get the Illustrator bit of the suite installed was to do a clean install of windows first. That was the only suggestion that worked. I like the programs themselves, but if you'll get fed up with installing them, how are you supposed to use it?

How about setting the hard drive specs manually instead of letting the bios automatically check? Also, you haven't specified how old this computer is, and older ones will have different issues than new ones.

Yes, but knowing that there is the potential for someone to elevate themselves to admin level and do what they want is helpful, because if you weren't told about it, you'd be thinking you were safe while they're laughing behind your back. Like this, you know Windows is not necessarily a total safe environment, so you supplement the protection with 3rd party programs that specialize in it. some that come to mind off hand are Folder Guard, Winguard, !st Security Administrator, and PC Security.

or simply press Windows+Lsame function and just as quick

You may run into trouble with the BIOS. Hopefully it will just switch to the new disk without a hitch, but it might give you any number of errors, including "missing hal.dll", or booting till the XP logo and restarting. If hal.dll problem appears, check in BIOS that hard drive is correctly set as primary. I've noticed the BIOS sometimes switching boot priorities around when adding/removing hard disks, especially with SATA ones. If it continually reboots without giving you the welcome screen, pop the xp cd in and boot to the recovery console, then run fixboot and if that by itself doesn't work, then run fixmbr and then fixboot again, and after that it should work. ---or at least it's always worked for me.

Generally that is the case, and people who go out and spend the money on it will rave about how it's so improved, whereas those who only tested the trial version and decide to keep the old one will say how the details are so minor. This is a different case though, where having bought it, I'm already fed up with it. Adobe used to have such great hassle-free installers, and they messed it up bigtime in this release.

That's true, although i would tend to trust this guy's stuff, as it's been taken apart and gone over, and no one's found anything to suggest he's bundling hidden stuff.

No i haven't tried the beta. this is the final CS3 Design Premium Suite I'm talking about. Adobe isn't much help either. Seems tons of people are having the same issue as me.

I was too hasty in saying i got it to work... Still will not install even with registry permissions. It reverts the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.svg\OpenWithList\Illustrator.exe back to no system permissions every time. i get this error: Error 1402.Could not open key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.svgz\OpenWithList\Illustrator.exe. System error 5. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel. Anyone have any other suggestions of how to fix it?

Latest> I've gotten the CS3 Design Premium. It fails miserably in the installer. Bloated, takes an hour to install, refuses to install illustrator CS3, a simple repair or installation of ONE component of the suite means a full hour to install shared content as well, which it insists on doing. I finally found a workaround after a lot of searching on the internet here. Basically you have to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.svg and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.svgz and give the system account complete rights on them because of some error. (Talking WinXP Pro SP2, I don't know if it's the same for other OS) thatâs all he said, but i tried it and in my install log it failed again, because HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.svg\OpenWithList\Illustrator.exe wasnât given rights as well. So you might want to create that key yourself before wasting another hour attempting to get it to install. Really a disappointment. I have come to expect so much better from Adobe, especially for a final product, this is a total letdown. any joys of using the new programs have been dampened by the unfriendly installer and glaring problems, not to mention hours wasted, in which i couldn't do anything else useful, as the installer insists on having basically every other program closed before it will start installing.

I believe that would be the full version.

I like Saint Michael's the best. I think he struck a nice balance between simplicity and design. Niru would have gotten my vote as well if there were multiple voting possibilities, but though nice, just a tad too plain for me. He should get some credits though for his favicons, i think those are the best of the bunch.

IMO the reason it looks like that is because he's using the Vista Transformation Pack and Stardock together. That's necessary for the total GUI skinning and transparency effects. I personally don't like stardock appz because they seem to slow down the system too much, but if you want looks more, then go for it. I have installed this on both of my computers. I don't know which version you installed, but i would recommend either the latest stable 5 release, or better, 6 final. there's alot of copies of 6 RC1 floating around labelled as final, so re-download from windowsxlive if in doubt. Any antivirus or protection software running during the patching can also mess up the tranformation. The you have to wait for all the security dialogs to pop up and cancel them all, otherwise some files may revert while others haven't. I switched to a different vista skin, which is why my windows look different than the screenshots above.

yes, you're absolutely right. I was just thinking of what other side things could be forgotten, since he said he was new at this.

<some duplicate info here as i wasn't quick enough to respond before faultylee>it's a bit sketchy information, but how about the following:Does your graphics card need to have a power cable attached to it? quite a few nowadays have a high power requirement, and have a 4 pin plug.That's minor, but i think what the cause of the problem is, is your #6. You've got to check that those are correct, otherwise pushing the power and reset buttons on the case won't do anything. Your motherboard manual should say where all the cables are supposed to plug in to. then just trace the wires from the buttons to the plugs at the ends, if you're not sure which is which, and plug them according to the manual.

I'll tell you, having had it run rampant on all my computers. first off: download Brontok remover. You can try several different ones, but one that worked for me can be downloaded at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. it's also useful if you can find out what variant of it you have. in my experience, Brontok.C can take an hour or more to remove, and not all removers work with it. You'll notice most likely that in explorer windows, the folder options tab is disabled, as is regedit, msconfig, and any attempt to get into them shuts down the computer. Also download AVG free. Run the brontok remover, you might have to do this several times if the computer keeps trying to restart. When it's done, go to Start>All Programs>Startup and delete the empty.pif entry. Reboot into safe mode. Disable system restore, run brontok remover again. If it finds anything, clean, delete the follwing: (where USERNAME is whatever user you have, and the assumption is that you have C: as your drive) C:\WINDOWS\eksplorasi.exe C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Empty.pif C:\WINDOWS\System32\USERNAME's Settings.scr (if exists) C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew\*.exe (any exe files under this folder) C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew\*.com (any com files under this folder) C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\*.exe (any exe files under this folder) C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\*.com (any com files under this folder) C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\*.TOK (any folder with this extension and its contents) C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Templates\*.exe (any exe files under this folder) C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Templates\*.com (any com files under this folder) reboot into normal mode. Try to install AVG free. It doesn't matter if you don't like that antivirus, you don't have to keep it on there. Just long enough to remove brontok. once installed and updated, try scanning. clean anything you find, reboot into safe mode and deep scan again. Once more, check the startup for that empty.pif, go to msconfig and disable any worms from starting. Now when you reboot, your system (hopefully) will be clean, but i recommend using explorer to open various folders, especially the ones in MY Documents, while having AVG running, as there may be leftover copies of itself that AVG won't catch until they're previewed. (which is why use explorer, because it attempts to preview all the files). You may not need to go through all those steps, you might be able to get away with a couple reboots and one scan, i just listed how i had to do it on a computer that had been infected for months. To enable stuff disabled by brontok, open Run Command, type w/o quote marks: "REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f" Again, Run command>"gpedit.msc" >User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows Components>Windows Explorer>Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu. Right click: Properties>Disable>Apply One more thing. If you have multiple users, you have to make sure you run all this from an admin account that has full read/write access to every account, otherwise it will just keep copying itself back. Sorry this wasn't too clear from start to finish, but i hope it helps.

I have both gmail, which i got near the beginning, then googlemail, which was sort of in the middle, and now the new addresses i create are gmail again. I never had any problem or any switching of one to the other, and for my @googlemail addresses, i can write @gmail instead and it goes through without any problems and vice versa.

I concur, but this topic has already been debated at length in several other threads.