I was terribly grump for the past 9 hours ago. Reason for the grumpiness was due to my Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator decided to bugger out on me.

Which is terrible because I really needed at this point to do a few designs.. argghhh.. With me, whenever I have an issue with my computer/ laptop be it software or hardware… I become very irritable and cranky. For I will just end up thinking about it on how my gadget can’t work. I just cannot cannot have it… my piece of gadget just not working the way I want it to.

After three hours of rehearsal at Ismail: The Last Days, i nearly forgot about the issue. That was until i stopped dancing, stopped singing and then i realised why i was ticked to begin with. Going home with a huff, i was determined to fix my problem in three ways

1. Go to Low Yat have my completely reformatted.
2. Go ask my friend Jay to help me install the programs (very sad and desperate here)
3. Figure it out myself via online and a powerful medium called GOOGLE!

Let me explain my issue first. What happened was my Photoshop and Illustrator which are both CS3, decided not to work. Photoshop i couldn’t even open it and Illustrator suddenly had a malfunctioned giving me a pop up that said please go see your IT person… Well hello I AM my own IT person!

Note: my Dreamweaver and Acrobat were working fine at this time.

This resulted in me first trying to reinstall both programs. When I attempted to do so, they gave me this new problem. “Illustrator CS 3 Installs Shared Component Only” and there was an error installing the MAIN Program!!..

Why!!!!!

I tried this again, by restarting my laptop..Still didn’t work. Then finally i resorted to hunting and deleting stuff in the registry which you can find under regedit from Run> **type** regedit. So yeah managed to find a few things and still ended up with the same problem.

Why!!!!!

FINALLY i searched on google for the problem and came to these sites.

Solution 1 : http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bc3c684/4 – The Adobe Forums

Solution 2 : Manually Removing Photoshop CS3 from VISTA

Solution 3 : Manually Removing Illustrator CS2 from VISTA

So my solution for the problem..Where you only get installing shared components for Photoshop and Illustrator?

Remove EVERYTHING from the computer. From registries to files that are still hidden in the computer like in C:\Program Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files\Common Files
C:\Users\admin\AppdData\Roaming\Adobe

and not forgetting that I have to look at filenames that go something like this: {B2D41883-3BFC-4BA0-A2F6-5A2C9836C238}

My gosh.. but after all that.. they work now

I’m all happy smiley again tee hee see I get to see these wonderful icons on my desktop again.

Ahhhh bliss I’m such a geek… i know heheehhe but i’m a kewt geek! Narcissist much ^_P

A possible reason for my tragedy is due Microsoft Vista having way to many security features which could’ve cause my program to have gone cacat (disabled). It was a real pain and I think this is the second time I’ve had issues with my Adobe programs. First was with the Dreamweaver but I fixed that too.. had a file that was saving crap automatically.. sorry can’t help there.. i forgot what it was called. But yeah… at least everything is working fine for now..

But i urge you not to get Vista.. not yet.. get XP and their new SP3. It’s out already ^_^

Yeap Happy happy