Now I'm sure some of these steps could be skipped or done different but I thought I would at least show you how it worked for me. Please let us all know this works for you so we can have some sort of definitive guide to all this chaos surrounding these CS3 installs!
* I went into Windows Firewall (use whatever firewall program you use to do this) and added all the exe files for everything i installed like AfterFX.exe, Adobe Premiere Pro.exe, Photoshop.exe etc AND the AdobeUpdater.exe (in this dir C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5). I then used the Change Scope button to only allow access to My Network (Subnet only) which blocks those exes from the internet.
* I ran all the installed programs to check that they worked
* I then installed all the patches that the Automatic Updater had downloaded for my previous Master Collection install (which are the same for this version). The default download directories are;
VISTA: C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Adobe\Updater5\Install
WinXP: C:\Do **** ents and Settings\(your user name)\ Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\Install
The updater deletes these files after it installs them, so to avoid downloading them all the time, you should copy them to another directory after they are downloaded and BEFORE the install finishes. Maybe I should make a torrent with the patches in it and these notes to make it easier!
* I then ran all the installed programs again to check that they still worked and all was good.
* Now here is where I hope it works the same for everyone. I set the date back to the current one and ran Encore, which was the only program that wouldn’t work with other attempted installs (although none would work if I tried to patch them) and the stupid License Expired message came up. After crapping myself I deleted the cache.db file under C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache and ran Encore again. When it asked me for a new serial I used the X-Force keygen this time (http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3791992/Adobe.Production.Premium.Suite.CS3.Keygen) and activated it with it and it ALL WORKS!
Ok since nobody else showed us the way, I thought i'd give it a go!!
I managed to install this and all the UPDATES current at 20th Nov in Vista x64 (I'm guessing it would work in all versions of Windows) and have all programs working. I have tried heaps of different ways to install this before and always end up with the "license expired" messages. This is how i got it to work.
* I uninstalled ALL Adobe products with standard Windows uninstaller
* Then ran Your Uninstaller! PRO 2006 which only found one thing to delete and is probably not necessary because of the next step to run, but I ran it anyway ïŠ
* I then ran the Adobe CS3Clean Script tool (Google it to download from adobe). I actually have 2 versions of this tool. One I got a while back and it shows 4 levels of cleaning and the newer one that adobe lists now had 2 levels of cleaning. I ran both on the highest level, but I probably only needed to run the latest one which is V1.0.4. The newer one also required me to install The Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp Utility which I got from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 . The older ran ok in XP but not so well in Vista.
* Restarted the PC
* I set the date back to August 1 2007
* Installed everything from the Production Pro CS3 Suite using the serial in the Readme.txt file in Keygens folder
* Activated it with the method in the same Readme.txt
* Every step after this point i created Restore Points so i could go back and try something different if it didn't work. (This worked very well once before when i tried updating a working copy of Premiere Pro from the Master Collection and the expired message appeared. A quick System Restore reverted it and it worked fine!) I also made a few images of my C: drive along the way with Acronis Trueimage in case system restore didn’t work but luckily everything worked first time! (and its probably overkill!)
I've got this to mostly work but Encore still says the expiry error. Anyone got around this yet? Also anyone found a way to apply the much needed updates?
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* I ran all the installed programs to check that they worked
* I then installed all the patches that the Automatic Updater had downloaded for my previous Master Collection install (which are the same for this version). The default download directories are;
VISTA: C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Adobe\Updater5\Install
WinXP: C:\Do **** ents and Settings\(your user name)\ Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Updater5\Install
The updater deletes these files after it installs them, so to avoid downloading them all the time, you should copy them to another directory after they are downloaded and BEFORE the install finishes. Maybe I should make a torrent with the patches in it and these notes to make it easier!
* I then ran all the installed programs again to check that they still worked and all was good.
* Now here is where I hope it works the same for everyone. I set the date back to the current one and ran Encore, which was the only program that wouldn’t work with other attempted installs (although none would work if I tried to patch them) and the stupid License Expired message came up. After crapping myself I deleted the cache.db file under C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache and ran Encore again. When it asked me for a new serial I used the X-Force keygen this time (http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3791992/Adobe.Production.Premium.Suite.CS3.Keygen) and activated it with it and it ALL WORKS!
I managed to install this and all the UPDATES current at 20th Nov in Vista x64 (I'm guessing it would work in all versions of Windows) and have all programs working. I have tried heaps of different ways to install this before and always end up with the "license expired" messages. This is how i got it to work.
* I uninstalled ALL Adobe products with standard Windows uninstaller
* Then ran Your Uninstaller! PRO 2006 which only found one thing to delete and is probably not necessary because of the next step to run, but I ran it anyway ïŠ
* I then ran the Adobe CS3Clean Script tool (Google it to download from adobe). I actually have 2 versions of this tool. One I got a while back and it shows 4 levels of cleaning and the newer one that adobe lists now had 2 levels of cleaning. I ran both on the highest level, but I probably only needed to run the latest one which is V1.0.4. The newer one also required me to install The Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp Utility which I got from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 . The older ran ok in XP but not so well in Vista.
* Restarted the PC
* I set the date back to August 1 2007
* Installed everything from the Production Pro CS3 Suite using the serial in the Readme.txt file in Keygens folder
* Activated it with the method in the same Readme.txt
* Every step after this point i created Restore Points so i could go back and try something different if it didn't work. (This worked very well once before when i tried updating a working copy of Premiere Pro from the Master Collection and the expired message appeared. A quick System Restore reverted it and it worked fine!) I also made a few images of my C: drive along the way with Acronis Trueimage in case system restore didn’t work but luckily everything worked first time! (and its probably overkill!)