Users are complaining that Adobe Creative Suite 3 simply won’t install. I’m one of them, running 32-bit Vista Professional. Pop the DVD in, click Install CS3 Web Premium, setup starts running, then silently closes. No error message, no install either.
Of course I have tried a few things. I’m not the only one struggling: the Adobe user forums are full of similar problems. Note: similar but not identical. There appear to be multiple issues, and not just on Vista but on XP as well. Here are some popular solutions:
- Run install from a selective startup
- Run install in silent mode with an override deployment file
- Uninstall conflicting versions, especially betas
I’ve tried the first two without success so far, on two different machines. Next stop tech support.
It looks to me as if Adobe is having Windows Installer issues. Perhaps nobody had time to read and observe the Tao of the Windows Installer. Still, I reckon Adobe could do a better job with the error logging and reporting. There are installer logs by default in \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\, but mine have nothing helpful; no errors are reported. The Windows installer supports a detailed logging mode, but it seems difficult to enable with this particular installer. The calls to the installer itself are wrapped by some kind of Adobe package manager, and the .msi files are designed to prevent you from opening them directly.
Here’s what I get if I run setup from a command prompt:
Begin Adobe Setup
UI mode: Full GUI
End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 4
Hardly illuminating. If I do the silent mode, I get Exit code: 7 instead.
The bottom line is that I have no clue what is going wrong. Perhaps it is a campaign to promote the Mac version. I’ll keep you posted.
Update
I fixed it. First, the logging was more helpful than I realised at first. In the Installers folder mentioned above, there is a file called:
Add or Remove Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium 1.0.log.gz
I’d not looked at this because I also had a file called:
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium 1.0.log
It turns out that the former is more useful than the latter. Of course it is compressed in .gz format, which Vista does not understand, but the open source 7-zip archiver takes care of that. So I extracted the log and found this entry:
DEBUG: Error 2739: Could not access JavaScript runtime for custom action Internal Error 2739.
That gave me something to troubleshoot. I soon found this article which says to re-register JScript:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
from an administrator command prompt. I was away; the setup ran fine after that.
Incidentally I did call tech support, but the techie didn’t help directly; he asked me to email the log though, and it was looking at that which gave me the answer. Now I can get on with the review…
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Apparently Adobe didn’t read Rob Mensching’s blog on why “VBScript (and Jscript) MSI CustomActions suck”:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx
Thanks for this post. On Vista Business I had to run cmd.exe as administrator to run regsvr32 jscript.dll. CS3 Web Premium then installed and then had to be repaired. It now works. Much Appreciated.
Regards Kate
thanks too. Had the same exact issue and you fixed it.
Thanks from me too!!! Been struggling with this issue for ages and now it is finally solved!!!!
Your a life saver!
Thanks! You saved me hours of troubleshooting!
You know what’s funny? I saw this solution several hours ago and just totally dismissed it and carried on with my search. I feel like a complete fool now, but thank you SO much!
Spot on. Thanks a lot for posting this.
Thank you for that I was going mad getting this to work on my Vista PC!!!
Thanks for this, it worked brilliantly!!!
I’d been searching for days on how to get this to work!
You my dear sir are a godsend!! After struggling with this for about 3 hours and navigating Adobe’s suprisingly bad customer service website, I was about to give up. Thanks for posting. Its helped immeasurably!!
Thnx Buddy.. Really Helpful.. that was the first time I really looked into why my application wasn’t installing and without u I would have been lost..
Tim,
Greatly appreciate your sleuthing to this simple solution. I had tried to install PS CS36x with no hint as to why it wouldn’t go. 30 sec spent registering and all is well. Why didn’t Adobe come up with this and post it?????????
Thanks again. Bob
Fantastic work! Works like a charm. I’ve been trying for a while to get this working and I could not understand what was going on. Thanks.
Wicked – Thanks very much.. Did as you instructed and it works like a charm now.
funny thing is that i’m having similar problems with an OS X install… Still trying some things, but Adobe can’t seem to get their installers right anywhere. i think it’s probably because of all the different copy protection schemes they try, even though probably half of the students that go on to get jobs that pay for licenses steal if while in school.
Thanks a lot for posting it. It was really helpful. True life saver as I had to install Flash CS3 at any cost on my Vista laptop.
hi,
have tried this but all i seem to get ‘regsvr32jscript.dll is not a recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or bathc file…
i will try again
timbo
Looks like you need a space between regsvr32 and jscript.dll?
Tim
thanks
I downloaded a fully legal copy of PPro CS3 last week. Staggers along on my P4 (with 2 gig of RAM) so decided to try it on my Laptop with Dual core processor and also 2 Gig and Vista Premium. Of cours it wouldn’t install ! That is until I ran the regsvr32 jscript.dll thingy.
Why is it, I wonder, why Adobe, who produce some excellent software, just can’t seem to get it right!! Has anyone thought about TESTING down there?
RichardM 24 years in PCs !!
hmm, i’ve tried this method but it doesnt seem to wanna work for me. i’ve tried it with UAC on and off and still doesnt work. anyone else have similar problems? i’m on vista 32bit ultimate. anyone else have any ideas? and i did register that javascipt .dll file.
The more detail you give in describing the error or problem, the more likely it is that someone can help.
Tim
hm, well i still get this error:
Begin Adobe Setup
UI Mode: Full GUI
End Adobe Setup. Exit Code: 4
when i try to install it thru command prompt. i get the same error if i register that java .dll and if i use the command ’setup.exe –record=1′ as well. if i just install it thru explorer by dbl-clicking on the exe, it just runs the process momentarily, then it disappears. and i’ve tried to run it with and without UAC, but that hasn’t made a difference. i’e also tried running it under admin rights, tho my default profile is admin. any ideas? sorry for being so vague last time…anymore details just ask.
Yeah me too. Nothing seems to work. UAC is off, registered the dll fine. Must be buggy.
If you go back to the original post, notice that it includes guidance on viewing the setup log. That’s the first place to look for discovering what is going wrong.
Tim
You are a STAR! Thx!
Sadly this solution doesn’t work for me.
When I hit setup, it initializes, and then the setup window appears for a second or so and it disappears again. Just like you described above.
I am on Windows XP Professional. I did everything under the administrator account. I tried registering jscript.dll and the vbscript.dll. They both register just fine. I tried shutting of all services except Windows Installer through msconfig (read somewhere that that might be a solution). Of course I removed every trace of Adobe products through the adobe clean up script and a registry sweep.
I also deinstalled any installed printer because I read somehwere that that could help as well.
When I run setup from the command line, I get:
Begin Adobe Setup
UI mode: Full GUI
End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 0
This suggests a succesfull install, while setup didn’t even get to run for more than a second!
Looking through both setup logs (the unpacked one and the packed one) I cannot find a single error reference.
Anybody anymore ideas?
Daan
Daan
Seems to be a different problem to the one I had.
You could try running msizap (also known as the Windows Installer Cleanup utility):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
You could check for any Adobe entries that might need removing. Note that this is a risky utility, in that it removes items from the Installer database but does not remove any other files, so use with care.
Otherwise … call support.
Tim
Tried that too. Both options. Cleanup utility from microsoft is also needed to run Adobe’s cleanup program. Customer support ran out of ideas. They asked me to change the system language even, but that didn’t help either :S
I am stuck. They would look into it… Wonder how long that is gonna take.
If you have any more ideas, those would be greatly appreciated
Daan
At last! I’ve found a solution on this page:
http://www.deploymentpro.com/forum/showthread/9/Problems_with_installing_Adobe_Creative_Suite_3
The solution goes as follows:
“This solution posted by gorodek on the Adobe forums helped me out with the problem where the installer just dies with no error message or warning.
1. Start the Setup as usual and let it copy over a few files and than – after a short popup – let him disappear. There shouldn’t be any other errors except the described above, otherwise you have to deal with these first (eg. run the cleanup script, if the setup complains about an already running installation etc).
2. Now open up your Windows Explorer and go to
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\c14ac4070fd9614ffe63f4bb533db2c\resources\common\scripts
3. Locate a file called “ContainerProxy.js” in the opened Window and open it with Notepad.
4. Go to line 1102 or simply search for
“jsonObj = _jsonToObject(window.external.SetSessionInitialized(initValue));”
and replace this line with
“jsonObj = _jsonToObject(SetSessionInitialized(initValue));”
5. Save the file.
6. Startup up the installation process by launching Setup.exe from this folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\c14ac4070fd9614ffe63f4bb533db2c\resources
This time the installer shouldn’t quit and hopefully you will be able to install.
”
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The random hex-number differs on each system I found out. Now Setup runs. Let’s hope I don’t run into any other problems.
Daan,
Wow! Well done and thanks also for copying it here where others will see it.
Tim
I also contacted Adobe support to tell them about it. They haven’t heard of that solution. It would be good if there were a website with all those solutions grouped together for potential disasters during installs.
Anyways, thanks for the help and your blog is wonderful!
Regards,
Daan
thanks that was really helpful…. I couldnt have worked it out by myself
David C (you know me :p)
Thanks Tim. You helped solve my problem.
Fantastic, thanks so much for getting cs3 working for me again!
Thanks a heap, saved me a lot of time and research.
Simon
Thanks for this – you saved me many hours of frustrating work!
Paul.
Thank you so much i was loosing sleep over this problem. I tried nearly everything with most other websites sheeding no light at all. It would have taken me ages to think of checking this up myself.
Much Appreciated
hello! i am have been struggling for days with a very similar adobe-cs problem as all of you have had. except in my situation, some of the cs3 programs DO get installed (acrobat 8.0, reader 8.0) before i get an error message just like yours.
would your solution also be applicable to my problem?
also, at what point in the installation procedure should i run the setup log that you are talking about? before running the cs3 cd? or when it gives me the error message back?
any comments/advice would be GREATLY appreciated by this computer-programming-illiterate designer!
Hi,
I have followed these steps and still no luck. I am trying to install Adobe Indesign CS3. When running the setup from the command prompt, I get:
Begin Adobe Setup
UI mode: Full GUI
End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 4
Also, I get a file created called Ahmbed.gz and in it:
[ 3924] Tue Jan 22 22:14:12 2008 INFO
——————– BEGIN – Proxy File Summary – BEGIN ——————–
——————– END – Proxy File Summary – END ——————–
——————– BEGIN – Updating Media Sources – BEGIN ——————–
Updated source path: D:\InDesign
——————– END – Updating Media Sources – END ——————–
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
END – Installer Session
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Can anyone offer any advice on what I should do?
I can’t believe adobe, hasn’t bothered to handle this yet. The product has been out for over a year. Probably should wait for CS4, maybe they will get it straight by then
Many thanks, Tim!
For the last few weeks Adobe Updater kept popping up to tell me to update to ExtendScript 2.0.2 (I had never even heard of ExtendScript before! I guess it came with Photoshop CS3) and it kept downloading the 30MB update, flashing a progress bar in my face and then telling me the update couldn’t be installed for my product.
Registering jscript.dll solved the problem completely! I never would’ve thought to do that.
I don’t know whose fault it is that the jscript.dll registry entries were damaged or missing but, given how many people this seems to have affected in one way or another, I do have to wonder WTF Adobe didn’t update their installer/updater to repair the situation or at least tell the user what needed to be done. Incredible. I kind-of expect more from a product that costs as much as Photoshop + upgrades.
Anyway, thanks again for sharing the info on how to make the problem go away!
thanks.. workd like magic… untill installation was completed.. then it said that it could not install most of the programs because of error with components…
now what do I do?
I can install all modules of CS3 design standard except for acrobat pro 8. It goes throught the enitre install but fails to install acrobat. Any ideas? i have change permissions in the registry, ran script files to cleanup, can’t resolve it.
hey, I stumbled across your site while in irritation mode. I’m on a Mac G4 dual processor, 512mgs RAM, using system 10.4.11 and what makes you think CS3 always installs on a Mac? I’m sitting here with a pretty box and no install. The installer doesn’t even start; clicking on the set up file according to the readme brings up an error message saying, “You must update your system software prior to installing CS3″ but my system software is beyond the 10.4.6 required. Got any ideas? Thanks for all the random acts of kindness above, dude.
You sir have my thanks. I followed your instructions and FINALLY my Photoshop installs.
just adding my thanks to everyone else’s, your solution worked perfectly, i’d have spent days on this and still not worked it out without your website!
Thanks, not only for sharing the solution but also how you got there. Saved me a lot of pain!
Yo…thanks.
Had exact same problem, googled it came across this page and fixed in 5 mins.
You save my day! Tryed to install Adobe CS3 Web Premium for a couple hours till i find this post and wolaa! Thanks for usefull information.
You are my hero!!
thanks for this article!!
I have the exactly same problem!
This solution doesn’t work for me
Neither does the one provided by Daan =/
Maybe because it’s not the web premium? (actually, have no idea if it is or not, brother downloaded the trial for me, which won’t even work – damn “Initializing Photoshop CS3″ then nothing)
I’ve been struggling for a week to install CS3 on Vista Business 64. It would go through the initial extraction part and crash the installer before it even prompted for serial number. Eventually I went to the folder within the Installers folder (long numeric folder name) and ran the copy it had made of the installer before it crashes.
It ran fine.
I didn´t know this before and trying to make it work i deleted the adobe folder that is inside common files. Now the setup windows dooesn´t even appear, but it used to do. So the only two files i see after run the setup is Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.log and Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.0.log.gz. What can i do?
hi¡
first, sorry for my bad english.
i have yesterday the problem:
Begin Adobe Setup
UI mode: Full GUI
End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 4
i have installed flash cs3 and it working good but the program close and mark all times that i try open “error”. I try instaled with cd and mark “begin adobe setup”….
Ect… i try instaled, delete all registred, delete all cs3, ect BUT NOTHING IS VALIDED.
THE LAST SOLUCTION BEFORE MY SUICIDED was download try version on adobe page. And after 3 hours try all things the program go.
I have a slightly different problem. I have a dell Inspiron 1721 with AMD 64×2 and Vista 32bit home premium. it will install the files but does not ask for my serial number first. then, none of the files will open although I see them in task manager. Adobe support says Amd 64 is the problem. Dell said it I needed more memory. I have 2g. Amd said it has not heard of the problem and they do not believe it is a processor problem. I am ready to explode with rage. By the way, the same disks installed with no problem on my desktop with windows XP. Help someone, please.
Thank you! Been tearing my hair out trying to get Indesign installed, came across your post and I’ve been fixed.
If you’re ever in Cambridge, England, I shall buy you a beer.
Good man!!! Thanks for this… Nothing worse than an installer that just terminates!!
You are a genius!
having same problem here. Thanks for this article.
WOW – you are a star. GOLD STAR.
Cheers Buddy
have tried all of the suggested fixes here to no avail. Only thing that has now worked is a complete re-install of Vista. I installed CS3 as the second program only after I had re-installed my firewall and anti-virus software.
It’s a pretty severe, and extremely annoying step to have to take BUT, it works. CS3 has now correctly installed.
Adobe are a disgrace given the length of time this problem has been around they have totally failed to take effective action to resolve it!
Thanks, that saved me loads of time.
Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have followed the steps as well as the ones given on editing the contents of the containerproxy.js. Now the setup doesn’t even start. I am running Vista Home Basic with VMWare Fusion.
Any one able 2 help?
I got the exit code: 7 error every time and tryed everyting with no solution. Now I downloaded free text editor “notepad++” and open and saved application.xml.override, install.xml and uninstall.xml.
It worked!!! no more exit code 7.
Brilliant wish i had looked for this 3 days ago!!!
Wicked awesome. Smart People! I bought my CS3 Suite from OEM software. Very cost effective source. But there’s a language barrier that hinders support dialog. I’m going to try the XP professional solution Daan discovered. Thank you all so much.
XP Professional users Check post 31 under this topic.
Sincerely, Joe Kennedy
MSDOS 2.X was my first OS
BASIC my first programming langiage
Windows XP Professional users the Fix offered via Post #31 on this page worked for me. There is one modification to the fix I would like to point out.
The solution goes as follows:
At last! I’ve found a solution on this page:
http://www.deploymentpro.com/forum/showthread/9/Problems_with_installing_Adobe_Creative_Suite_3
The solution goes as follows:
“This solution posted by gorodek on the Adobe forums helped me out with the problem where the installer just dies with no error message or warning.
1. Start the Setup as usual and let it copy over a few files and than – after a short popup – let him disappear. There shouldn’t be any other errors except the described above, otherwise you have to deal with these first (eg. run the cleanup script, if the setup complains about an already running installation etc).
2. Now open up your Windows Explorer and go to
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\c14ac4070fd9614ffe63f4bb533db2c\resources\common\scripts
3. Locate a file called “ContainerProxy.js” in the opened Window and open it with Notepad.
4. Go to line 1102 or simply search for
“jsonObj = _jsonToObject(window.external.SetSessionInitialized(initValue));”
and replace this line with
“jsonObj = _jsonToObject(SetSessionInitialized(initValue));”
5. Save the file.
6. Startup up the installation process by launching Setup.exe from this path:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\c14ac4070fd9614ffe63f4bb533db2c\Setup.exe
This time the installer shouldn’t quit and hopefully you will be able to install.
”
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The random hex-number differs on each system I found out. Now Setup runs. Let’s hope I don’t run into any other problems.
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Make sure the syntax is exact when you make the java script code modification.
“jsonObj = _jsonToObject(SetSessionInitialized(initValue));”
Make sure there’s a space before and after the “=”.
Thanks again Tim and Daan and all. Now I can take a shower
when i click setup.exe nothing happens, just a run screen which disappears… what do i dooo !
Sophi,
Did you try what is suggested in the first post?
On XP, Windows key + R, type cmd, press Enter.
This opens a black command window. Type:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
and press Enter.
Then retry setup.
On Vista, you need to open a command prompt with administrator rights. Click the Start menu and type “command” into the search box (without the quotes). A shortcut to Command Prompt should appear above. Right-click this shortcut and choose Run as administrator. You will be prompted to approve the action.
Now you have a command prompt. Type:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
and press Enter.
Then retry setup.
Tim
it doesnt work
keeps saying the setup.exe is not a valid win32 application when i click it
am i doing something wrong?
This suggests a corrupt CD or failing CD drive.
Tim
Hello Tim..
I wonder if you could help me with my problem.. As I’m trying to install Photoshop CS3, the actual set-up program won’t run, however I believe that I have previously set-up Photoshop on this PC before. The problem is when I’m trying to run the Photoshop program, an error message appears saying that the program cannot run as Adobelinguistic.dll is missing, replacing this may help. So I have replaced the file several times, and I’m still getting the same error report.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks in advance.
I still have the same problem uploading the CS3 Suite… I have Windows Vista and I’ve Done the troubleshooting that you provided with the administrator but it still isn’t working for me… Please help….
I’m also having this problem. I’ve tried all above solutions but to no avail.
I have a feeling it may be a windows update causing the problem. Will look into this.
Hi…
Anybody…
Superman…
Jebus….
Please save me…
I recently purcahsed a new laptop as my previous laptop was so slow. I’m trying to install Web Premium CS3 on Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
I get to the installation page and select all components to be installed, i then click next but nothing happens.
i get the message on the title bar saying:
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium Installer: Options: (Not Responding)
not a jot happens. It just sits on the screen doing nothing. Is there anything i can do to rectify this?
I’m loading it from my hard drive by the way.
thanks for any help you can give,
kind regards
mike
Call support.
Tim
Can anyone out there help. I’m unable to install the 1st disc of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium on to my month old HP using XP. Error message says that Internet Explorer is running even though nothing appears to be running & I also have the internet unplugged.
However I am also having a major problem with popups. I feel that some software is running without my knowledge in the background. I’ve tried unsuccessfully to find it but no luck.
Any help appreciated.
Brendan
@Brendan
If you think you may have a virus, I’d fix that first – reinstall the entire OS if necessary.
As for Internet Explorer, you may need to terminate it with Task Manager – look at processes and terminate any instances of iexplore.exe.
Tim
This did not work for me.
Could it possibly be Windows service pack 3?
I tried post #31 and it didn’t work. Is there supposed to be some kind of setup that magically appears in the folder that you can press because I see none.
can any1 help me plss.
i hav tried all of d above methods.
i registered jscript.dll,modified that ContainerProxy.js.cleaned up all using windows install clean-up.
but nothin seems to help me out.
no GUI appears for d installation.
plssss sumbody help me out
my os windows vista home basic
Hello all,
I hava another problem. I choose the components I want to install, but at the end a message comes out and says that all my choices failed to install. (except common components). I have XP 32bit.
Anyone seen that???
In the logs I notice an ERROR with code=2
Many thanks
This is the same problem I’m having.
Installs 2 programs and says it can’t install the rest.
Vista Home AND Business X86 64.
Installed fine on XP.
“Hello all,
I hava another problem. I choose the components I want to install, but at the end a message comes out and says that all my choices failed to install. (except common components). I have XP 32bit.
Anyone seen that???
In the logs I notice an ERROR with code=2
Many thanks”
I am about to go back to my CS1 package.
I’ve tried every solution for Vista 64 to be found and nothing works.
Adobe really dropped the ball on this one…again.
If You cant install CS3/the startup window does not apper then:
-Delete ALL TEMP folders from all users..\Documents and Settings\….all users…\Local Settings\Temp\
-1-install this: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/e9d80355-7ab4-45b8-80e8-983a48d5e1bd/msicuu2.exe
-2-install this: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/creativesuite/script/3/wincs3clean.zip and run it to clean registry.
-3-delete: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\installers\*.*
That work for me after hours of installing posibilities of CS3.
You rock! Solved my problem! Thanks.
Hi All,
I have been reading this blog with much intrege trying to locate any information regarding the registry keys for the CS3 package.
I am aware that i may be tariling off the original subject matter with this question but despreate times and all that…
I have not had any problems installig the software itself (simply draged the setup to the local hard drive and ran in from there) but I cant compleatly uninstall the F***ing thing!
after uninstaling I ran regedit and removed all the keys i could find in my KEY_LOCAL_MACHIN & HKEY_CURRENT_USER but when I come to reinstall the software it will still find my original product key and “days left of trial”
Any sugestions on where these keys may be located would be a HUGE help to me. Thanks,
Regards.
@Bungle you are asking for a crack, sorry can’t help with that.
Tim
When launching the install, some of the essential packages of the CS3 Master Suite are greyed out, and thus not installed.
We meet all the necessary requirements.
Please advise.
Appologies Tim.
Tried all possibilities, nothing so far, the silly installer keeps disappearing:
CCleaner
Adobe clearner
mscleaner
deleted registry
everything
still cant get it to work!
can someone help?
Do i need to uninstall other adobe applications like illustrator and photoshop Lightroom too?
Vista Ultimate x64
For the ones who did not find a resolution in any of the above steps, may have a problem with the Windows installer. (You might be getting Exit code: 4 despite trying everything.)
This solution is only if nothing helped from the above steps:
Start the Windows Installer service
* Click Start, type Services.msc and press {ENTER}
* Double-click Windows Installer
* Set the Startup type of Windows Installer to Manual
* Click Start to start the service. Note down the error message if any.
* Click OK.
Windows Installer Registry Fix
If the above steps do not help or if the Windows Installer service is not listed in the Services applet, follow these steps:
* Download msiserver.zip and save it to Desktop.
* Unzip the file and extract msiserver.reg to the Desktop.
* Right-click msiserver.reg and choose Merge.
Click Yes when asked for confirmation.
* Restart Windows.
See: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/vista-the-windows-installer-service-could-not-be-accessed/ also.
I downloaded the Photoshop CS4 30-day trial from Adobe on Jan. 7, 2009 (816 MB!) It has similar installation problems. The edited script described in Item #70 above solved the problem for me after days of frustration. Thanks guys!
Adobe support has been so overwhelmed I never have been able to even post a support request. Useless!
Thanks mate. Worked a treat!
thanks for the post. I never would have figured it out otherwise.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!!
Thanks so much for that, I was absolutely lost as to what the problem was.
I was having the same error, had a look for the word error in the log.
[Error 1327.Invalid Drive: H:\]
As it turns out, the locaiton of my documents is a network drive. i changed it back to the local disk and the install it works fine.
thank you… i was completely at a loss for how to get illustrator working and now it’s totally fixed!