Reinstalling CS3 or CS4 and Vista

[KevinStecyk]

Originally Posted by Noel_Carboni

All I can offer as advice that hasn't already been given is this: Exhaust all possibilities for system recovery before committing to starting over. It's possible the system recovery process may find a happy medium for you.

Hi Noel,

Thank you for your advice. I am still steeling myself in preparation for wiping the hard drive and starting over. I bought this pc one year ago. It's a higher end XPS Dell PC that came preloaded with Vista.

I've got a few hiccups with a couple of software programs. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software to no avail. In speaking with tech support, they believe I have an issue with my registry file.

While I could roll back and try to find when the problem appeared, I am looking forward to starting fresh. I hope to get rid of the deleterious that I've accumulated over the past year. I should have all my disks and soft copies of my software. Everything is legitimate.

So it's just a question of making sure that I have all the particulars (registrations, key codes, whatnot software, newer drivers, SP1, passwords, and on and on), and just dive in.

I suspect once I do reinstall everything, the PC will zip along even faster without its burden of junk that it might carrying.

If you have any advice with regard to Photoshop, I'd love to read it.

Best regards,
Kevin

[Noel_Carboni]

For what it's worth, as my upgrade was coincident with the release of CS4, I never went through the deactivate process with the old machine.

I do recall disabling several things from CS4 as I had no need for them (one of them being Adobe Drive or some such).

Oh, and make note of whatever extensions you've enabled (e.g., the Bigger Tiles plugin, et al) so you can redo them.

-Noel

[KevinStecyk]

Thanks for your help Noel!