Manual Removal of CS3 Retail

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Denyse_Prescott
Dec 4, 2007
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I was having a bit of a problem with my Retail purchased version of CS3 Extended. My know it all kid brother, said I needed to reinstall the program, and he went about just DELETING the old files not uninstalling them!

Now, I cannot get the program to reinstall, OR to use the OEM Disk to uninstall what is left over.

HOW can I go about this, other than to reformat my hard drive, as the people at the local computer store said I have to do?

Any assistance, will be greatly appreciated.
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Bob Levine
Dec 4, 2007
OEM Disk

No such thing. That could explain your problems.

Bob
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Denyse_Prescott
Dec 4, 2007
OK… excuse my wording. I am just a dumb broad ok?

Make that the retail disk that came inside of the box that came from Adobe. Is that better.

Sorry… but I need to get this program working again; I really do not want to be forced to return to CS2 if that will even install now (have not tried).

HELP!
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Bob Levine
Dec 4, 2007
Dear Dumb Broad <g>,

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Bob
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Phosphor
Dec 5, 2007
Hopefully, the Dumb BroadΒ™ knows what <g> means.

πŸ™‚
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SteveCohen
Dec 5, 2007
Never mind the dumb broad. I don’t know what <g> is. Help for a dumb guy.

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Steve
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Phosphor
Dec 5, 2007
Variously, "grin", or "giggle".

Ya gotta go upper-case <G> for "guffaw" I think.
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SteveCohen
Dec 5, 2007
It seem like a stretch. I can understand πŸ™‚ without a problem, but I am way older than 20.

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Steve
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dave_milbut
Dec 5, 2007
but I am way older than 20.

created before the days of www and "smileys". think back to BBS’s and CompuServe!

<g> – grin
<G> – big grin
<eg> – evil grin
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SteveCohen
Dec 5, 2007
CompuServe was so hard to navigate, I gave up. Then came Mozilla.

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Steve
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Phosphor
Dec 5, 2007
"…but I am way older than 20."

There are more of us around here in that club than you may initially guess.
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dave_milbut
Dec 5, 2007
I gave up.

<eg>
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dave_milbut
Dec 5, 2007
< http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/e312192 241fdb5bd?output=gplain>
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dave_milbut
Dec 5, 2007
lol! off topic. sorry. <vbeg>
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Phosphor
Dec 5, 2007
IANAL, but CYSTIH?
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Bob Levine
Dec 5, 2007
but I am way older than 20.

I was way older than 20, 20 years ago.

Bob
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Denyse_Prescott
Dec 5, 2007
Yes I know what <g> means… I am not a Blonde… I am a RED HEAD!

I was hoping to find a less drastic means of removing CS3 than to have to lose everything that went on using the Microsoft Installer.

But if that is what must be done (there is some other way right?)

Thanks for all of the attention… makes me feel good… oh yes, I maybe "dumb" but I am not "old" as well… let’s just say mid twenties.

Or is that too old for you <lol>
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Bob Levine
Dec 5, 2007
I was hoping to find a less drastic means of removing CS3 than to have to lose everything that went on using the Microsoft Installer.

It’s a pretty selective tool. Just set it to kill the Photoshop install and you should be good to go.

Or is that too old for you <lol>

Sadly, just the opposite is true.

Bob
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Phosphor
Dec 5, 2007
"RED HEAD…mid twenties…"

Soooo, <Joey Tribbiani>"How you doin’?"</Joey Tribbiani>

<B.E.G.!!!>

πŸ™‚
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Rob_Keijzer
Dec 5, 2007
<Zappa>Let me guess, you’re an Italian</Zappa>
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Denyse_Prescott
Dec 7, 2007
I have done all you suggested, and then did a run through the registry using REGEDIT searching for either PHOTOSHOP10 and/or CS3

The is NO reference to the program anywhere in the Registry.

But I still cannot get Photoshop CS3 to reinstall. It starts, as I see a window that show it is doing something… and then NOTHING.

I checked Task Manager and there is no application running (I expected to see setup or something), and the CPU meter is at about 2%.

Any new suggestions? (PLEASE)

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