Comments on: How to Deactivate and Reactivate Adobe Photoshop CS3 to Transfer or Move Activation License Key

By: awariat

awariat — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:58:13 +0000

windows seven
c:/programdata/flexnet/
or users/allusers/flexnet

similar in vista i think

i have just activated
thanx michelle

By: Warez Rulez

Warez Rulez — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:41:01 +0000

This is why the warez community rulez. I will never buy the software again because, after spending $1,000, I find I’m better off finding and installing cracked software and being done with this mess.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:46:20 +0000

Like everyone else I did not realize I had to deactivate my CS3 version on my old computer. That computer doesnt even work now and I have recently replaced it and downloaded CS3 on the new one. However I am now unable to register it on the current computer. I’ve read and read and am very tired of sitting in a holding pattern waiting for Adobe cs to pick up the line. Is there a way around this or did I miss something in the above statements? Thank you in advance.

By: Khalid

Khalid — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:53 +0000

Please HELP me I am using VISTA.

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:57:53 +0000

I have been baving major problems with CS3, it suddenly stopped working so I decided to uninstall and reinstall forgetting to deactivate. After trying different methods and 5 hours later I came accross this blog and thankfully the advice Michelle gave has worked.

Delete:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db

Thankgod I can do some work now!

By: Khalid

Khalid — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:39:11 +0000

Thank you Michelle for your professional answer

in VISTA

C:\Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/FLEXnet/adobe_00080000.tsf.data

not working because there is no Documents and Settings

please help me to find a solution !!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:55:03 +0000

I got that tragic error message. it said: The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer service. I can’t reinstall. I can’t access the photoshop help menu to get to the help menu to deactivate it so I can delete it. So, what am I to do? I just try to delete it as best I can. Can’t uninstall, can’t reinstall. If I had known this might happen, I never would have bought photoshop cs3. This is terrible. I’m not going to reformat my hard drive and lose all my data. This is so unfair. I hate photoshop. Photoshop is a real bitch.

Leslie

By: Norman

Norman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:46:27 +0000

I am running VISTA Home Version Service Pack 1; x64 Base PC; I didn’t deactivate Adobe CS3 and need to re-activate with a different License. Adobe will not allow me to run Photo Shop… please help.
Thank you,

By: ayman essayed

ayman essayed — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:33:04 +0000

this way created by Michelle
is so good
it make me reactivat my product as well
thank you Michelle

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db

C:\Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/FLEXnet/adobe_00080000.tsf.data

By: Darkness

Darkness — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:53:57 +0000

Recently an employee left, this employee had a activated copy of CS3 on their home machine (as well as at the office). This was overlook prior departure, former-employee has been unresponsive to requests to deactivate. What would be the proper path to have that copy deactivated if the former-employee continues to be unresponsive?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:58:43 +0000

thanks michelle ,tht worked

By: Steve Crye

Steve Crye — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:58:26 +0000

There is no “deactivate” option in CS3 help.

I used to love Photoshop. Now I hate it with the same intensity I hate all the licensing-crippled Adobe cr*p. I’ll just use CS2 and will return CS3 for a refund.

Disgusted,

Steve

By: Comet

Comet — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:36:30 +0000

can someone help me..
when i opened adobe photoshop cs3 on windows Vista. there is this message
“Licensing for this product has stopped working” “you cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or adobe customer support for help.”

what should i do?

By: ben

ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:13:08 +0000

i had removed CS3 before relising i needed to deactivate ..

i simply reinstalled it on the same machine
it then allowed me to deactivate it .

By: ben

ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:12:27 +0000

i had removed CS3 before relising i needed to deactivate ..

i simply reinstalled it on the same machine
it then allowed me to deactiate it .

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:29:35 +0000

If you didn’t deactivate Adobe before uninstall, and it’s asking for you to re-activate, delete the following:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db

C:\Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/FLEXnet/adobe_00080000.tsf.data

And you can Activate them from scratch again (Including new serial number)