Having gone through a tiresome process when installing Illustrator on my netbook , the saga continued with the error message:
“Licensing for this product has expired” otherwise know as “Full Version license has expired”.
Once again the first point of contact was Adobe’s fine Customer Support
only to be told that I have to uninstall all CS3 products on my machine.
The procedure (even though it has nothing to do with CS3 but is for CS4
and CS5) can be found here:
This procedure took almost a whole day to complete as I have also use of
Photoshop without success. They were then kind enough to provide me
with this solution:
Needless to say this didn’t work either and whatever tried or did, the
product registrations were unsuccessful and I kept getting the same
error message over and over again when opening any Illustrator or
Photoshop.
Enough was enough – I was forced to seek help again. This is what I received in response:
1. Open Windows Explorer, find and delete ‘C:\Program Files (86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db‘
2. Open any CS3 program and enter your serial number for that product (Illustrator in your case). DO NOT select ‘Accept/Next’ yet.
2. Open any CS3 program and enter your serial number for that product (Illustrator in your case). DO NOT select ‘Accept/Next’ yet.
3. Now open Windows Explorer and go to ‘C:\Program Files (86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache‘ again. You will notice a new ‘cache.db‘ file there.
4. Right click on the file, select Properties and tick the “Read Only” box at the bottom.
5. Go back to the window of Illustrator where you entered your key and select ‘Accept/Next’.
6. When the ‘Register Software‘ screen pops up, select ”Register Later“.
7. Now the program will load. But this IS NOT the end of the story yet so don’t get excited. When the program loads, another ‘Register Software‘ screen pops up.
8. Go back to Windows Explorer and ‘C:\Program Files (86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache‘. Right-click on the file ‘cache.db‘ and select ‘Properties‘ but this time unselect/untick the “Read Only” box at the bottom.
9. Now go back to the ‘Register Software‘ screen of Illustrator CS3 and select the “Do Not Register/Never Register” option.
10. Now go back to Windows Explorer and ‘C:\Program Files (86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache‘ again. Right-click on the file ‘cache.db‘ and select ‘Properties‘. Select/tick the “Read Only” box at the bottom and leave it that way PERMANENTLY!
11. This final step is very important: leave the computer and go to the
kitchen. Put the kettle on and make tea/coffee. Return to PC and enjoy.
Good luck with this and once again, you are using the info at your own risk.
ADOBE KEYS
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