Thursday, May 24, 2007

Flash CS3 & Vista Home Premium

For the last few days I was struggling to install Flash CS3 on my new laptop which has Vista Home Premium. After a lot, real lot, of googling I found a solution, a stupid solution to find a way to install the software on my machine.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t555142.html This forum gave me the best answer to solve the issue.

Simple way to install Flash CS3 in Vista Home Premium (only if you have any trouble installing, else dont worry Vista gives enough in many other ways)

  1. Get command prompt up. It has to be run with admin rights so save yourself some time and run it this way.........Start/programs/accessories/.....right click command prompt and click run as administrator.
  2. Then paste these commands in 1 after the other

    regsvr32 vbscript.dll (THEN PRESS ENTER)
    and
    regsvr32 jscript.dll (AGAIN PRESS ENTER)

    You should get a succesful response each time. If youve recently tried installing the software it might still be running in the background (or more like hanging in the background), possibly more than one instance, you have to close any of these installers down in the task manager. Open task manager and look at processes from all users, find msiexec.exe, its described as "windows installer" and close all instances of this process.
  3. Now go to your extracted program and run the setup file for your program (Im assuming your initial file unzipped or extracted the files to a directory first), mine extracted to D:\Adobe CS3\Dreamweaver (D: is my primary drive, yours is probably C:). I opted to right click my "setup.exe" file that was in the Dreamweaver folder and run as admin (just in case of admin errors) and the installer worked like a charm, no reboot required nothing. It was a doddle.
  4. IT WAS FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you still facing any problem, write to the Adobe customer support.

Happy CS3!

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