Warning to anyone about to start using Vista

[Player Rob]

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc3b755/58

OK I decided to go and buy a new PC two weeks ago. for the past two year I have had an external hard drive where I shove work and software downloads. Knowing that one day I would change PCs I thought this would be the easiest way for me to move everything over and also I would have a constant back up.

Anyway I buy a kick arse HP with Vista installed. Basically any Adobe CS3 products will not install on Vista. Read the thread above from Adobe. There are several ways to get it to work but none of them worked for me.

So I have a kick arse HP with Vista now sat there doing nothing. I personally think that microsoft have done this on purpose as when I contacted them they didnt offer me any way to solve the problem but suggested that I switch over to their 'superior' software http://www.microsoft.com/expression/.../overview.aspx

I found it quite a coincidence that all adobe products which were market leaders and rivals to the new Microsoft software didnt work when most software that Microsoft does not make a similar version of does instantly install.

If you are going to start using Vista make sure you have early copies of the software that you can install as I know if it is a few years old it will install on Vista.

[VG.Content]

Hmm, something to think about.

Been trying to catch you on icq for bout a week rob.. Get with me mate

[Head Boy]

Everything these days seems to be designed to scam, cheat, steal and/or defraud, including the government.

[Mihx]

Since to me this sounds very much like Adobe fucking up their own installer rather than something you can attribute to malicious scheming plans of the big evil Microsoft corporation (though we all know how much everyone and their dog loves to indulge in those kinds of paranoid speculations ), I read through some of the thread you linked to as well as searched a bit more for it on Google.

A lot of it was way over my head (all manner of installer related scripting and Java stuff), but it definately looks like there are several people who think this was a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" - which was apparantly just what the guys at Adobe thought would be fun to do with CS3.
Sounds like the problem is happing to some people on XP as well, not just Vista.

No doubt Adobe will release a fix for it sooner rather than later.

[AbsolutePorn]

I have vista, and got all the Adobe programs working without any problem.

[a1r3k]

if i can help it i will never use vista.

my super laptop got a very nice lobotomy when i got it. i put xp pro on it and booooooooooooooom awesome experience. vista is terrible.

[facialfreak]

Think of Microsoft and Vista as Bush and Cheney ...

Sure everybody hates Bush, but Cheney is the real evil ...

[RawAlex]

If nothing else, contact HP and ask them to send you an XP "downgrade" kit, that will bring your computer onto XP so you can get back to work.

[facialfreak]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

If nothing else, contact HP and ask them to send you an XP "downgrade" kit, that will bring your computer onto XP so you can get back to work.

Yep ... Dell also has free XP downgrades available ... I did this with my Latitude lappy ..

Now running it with a UbuntuStudio dual boot

[ScreaM]

Sorry to hear that Rob and thanks for the heads up.

Fuck Microsoft.

[papagmp]

I'll stick with XP till they get the Adobe/Vista thing figured out.

[Player Rob]

Originally Posted by Greg B

If Adobe programs don't install my best bet is it's gotta be the anti-virus/anti-spyware software you may have installed. Try it and see what happens. If Vista has this stuff installed as Microsoft has a want to do, then you may have to hit the dreaded message boards at Microsoft to find others with similar problems. Try installing them in safe mode, if they install and then work in normal mode then you're cool. If they install in Safe Mode but work only a few times in Normal, you know it's the security.

I have tried that. Still doesnt work. Norton spends its life popping up telling me what it is doing. Thanks for the advice though.

[Auf Mauf]

Thanks for all this informations guys, i want to instal Vista so this thread will be very useful for me.

[TGS]

The thing is, try to find damn Laptop with Xp installed these days (new laptop) non comes with XP

I know, i'm in a buying mode !