Sydzy
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Gah, so I am in this uni course doing animation and motion graphics, and a HUGE part of one of my subjects is on photoshop. Now I got photoshop CS3 a couple of months ago, it was installed and all was fine and dandy, so about 1 month ago it would crash the second I opened it. lame... anywho, didn't really bother me cause I never used it that much, until I started uni again yesterday and started to need it again.
So it wouldn't work at all, it would load up, then just go to not responding and close, fun fun. Went to uninstall it and reinstall. Pressed uninstall in the add / remove programs section... nothing happens... for about 5 mins. Try this a couple of times. Yeah, so that didn't work.
Looked for an uninstall program. Couldn't find one. Huzzah. Anywho, so in the end I manually deleted the files and went to the registry using regedit.exe and deleted the photoshop folder.
Pop in my magical photoshop cd, go use setup.exe. It does some loading thing, i think it is unpacking onto my HDD or something, so that does that, goes away... nothing. It closes the process setup.exe. I checked in task manager.
Later on I found out that alas! My computer still thinks it is installed, cause in the add remove programs thing it is still listed up there, but now it is only taking up like 30 meg or so of space. I can't uninstall it.
In a desperate attempt to fix this I just go to regedit.exe and use the find function to look for "photoshop" and delete everything I can find. Yeah... so about 30 mins later of just pressing delete enter f3 and realising I am about 10% of my way through the registry, I give that brilliant plan up.
So basically I can't uninstall photoshop. I can't install photoshop. I don't have the files for photoshop. And I can't get rid of these magical imaginary files that make up my computers photoshop. I NEED PHOTOSHOP.
Is there any way that I can trace where the **** in the registry it is telling my computer that photoshop is still installed? Or any ideas on how to install this? It is really **** lame.
Thanks for any help, even if you got any ideas and are unsure please post cause I am stuffed without it.
Cheers,
Sydz
So it wouldn't work at all, it would load up, then just go to not responding and close, fun fun. Went to uninstall it and reinstall. Pressed uninstall in the add / remove programs section... nothing happens... for about 5 mins. Try this a couple of times. Yeah, so that didn't work.
Looked for an uninstall program. Couldn't find one. Huzzah. Anywho, so in the end I manually deleted the files and went to the registry using regedit.exe and deleted the photoshop folder.
Pop in my magical photoshop cd, go use setup.exe. It does some loading thing, i think it is unpacking onto my HDD or something, so that does that, goes away... nothing. It closes the process setup.exe. I checked in task manager.
Later on I found out that alas! My computer still thinks it is installed, cause in the add remove programs thing it is still listed up there, but now it is only taking up like 30 meg or so of space. I can't uninstall it.
In a desperate attempt to fix this I just go to regedit.exe and use the find function to look for "photoshop" and delete everything I can find. Yeah... so about 30 mins later of just pressing delete enter f3 and realising I am about 10% of my way through the registry, I give that brilliant plan up.
So basically I can't uninstall photoshop. I can't install photoshop. I don't have the files for photoshop. And I can't get rid of these magical imaginary files that make up my computers photoshop. I NEED PHOTOSHOP.
Is there any way that I can trace where the **** in the registry it is telling my computer that photoshop is still installed? Or any ideas on how to install this? It is really **** lame.
Thanks for any help, even if you got any ideas and are unsure please post cause I am stuffed without it.
Cheers,
Sydz
