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I agree with this article 100%. My latest installs have been on windows and it's the same story. In order to download a product you need to do the following:
by proee 18y ago
I agree with this article 100%. My latest installs have been on windows and it's the same story. In order to download a product you need to do the following:
1.)Register for Trial
2.)Download installer Software
3.)Download Product (Freeaking HUGE Arse Files 1GB)
4.)Run installer (starts to uncompress the download - takes forever)
5.)Run real installer (again, takes forever)
6.)Jump through tons on splash screen startup nags
7.)Finally get software to start - my computer with dual core processor now crawls to a hault.
8.)Trial expires, but Adobe "auto updater" still thinks I want updates for my expired trial????
9.)Unistall (get coffee and wait 30 minutes - no joke)
FAIL
- jcromartie 18y agoTrust me, deadling with the real discs is just as frustrating. I don't know where they went wrong along the way, but it's a hopeless mess now.
- katamole 18y agoReminds me of the trouble a large number of users had trying to install CS3 on Vista. The installer wouldn't initialise properly, and of course it didn't print any meaningful errors. Eventually I found a fix for this on someone's blog which suggested changing one of the environment variables. After searching the Adobe forums and finding many users with the same problem, it seemed pretty obvious that Adobe just didn't know what the solution was. Edit: found the relevant paragraph in the below mentioned Adobe blog: "In CS3, there were some serious problems that customers faced and the time it took to resolve those issues in customer support made the initial experience with CS3 painful for some customers." Painful? Oh yes...