Photoshop CS3 Repeat Registration under XP

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Bob_Shirley
Feb 19, 2008
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I just upgraded to CS3 on Windows XP and every few days I am prompted to register. I registered twice and then spoke with Customer Service who could not see the registration so they manually registered me. Since then the registration screen appeared again and I registered a third time.

I just spent 4 1/2 hours on the phone going back and forth between Adobe Customer Service and Photoshop support. Customer Support wants me to return CS3 and buy it again under a different customer number. Support wants me to uninstall all Adobe products, delete the registry branch under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe, delete all Adobe content under "Program Files" and under "Documents and Settings", create a new user account, add that new user to the Administrators group, then reinstall all Adobe products using that new user account.

I asked support where Photoshop CS3 records the registration information and was told that since CS3 is a new product, they do not have that level of technical information.

Has anyone else had a registration problem with CS3 on XP?

Does anyone know where the registration information is stored? If it is stored in the registry, I should be able to manually enter the keys and data.

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Rob_Keijzer
Feb 19, 2008
What happens if you decline the registration when prompted? Are you really speaking about registration, or do you perhaps mean activation?

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Bob_Shirley
Feb 19, 2008
Registration. The product is working.
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bartdepuij
Feb 22, 2008
the same applies for CS2 under Windows Vista :o(
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dave_milbut
Feb 22, 2008
under vista, turn off UAC, register and turn it back on and you should be ok.

bob, near as i can figure you probably have a registry key that’s not being updated correctly. if it’s still happening, deactivate, uninstall and reinstall.
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Bob_Shirley
Feb 22, 2008
Under Vista, you need to mess with UAC. My OS is XP Pro SP2 (32-bit).

I could not find a CS3 registration entry in the registry. Tech support states they have no documentation on how CS3 records the registration and (if this is true, it is pathetic) do not have access to engineering (software developers) to ask them.

Multiple registration attempts did not stop the application from asking me to register every few days, so on Feb 19th I selected never register. As of this morning, PS has not again asked me to register. If that remains the case for a week, then the issue is solved. After the first two registration attempts failed, I had Customer Service manually register the product.
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dave_milbut
Feb 22, 2008
that’s good. as long as they got you on record.

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