

The more people give in to the subscription software model, the more companies will be inclined to adopt it.PRO TIP: This article is about the software Photoshop CS3 and how old it is. If you don't have the no-activation installation file, you may be out of luck. I went ahead anyway, and it seems to be running just fine, including Camera Raw, which is what I most wanted.īottom line, even if you don't see the "licensing for this program" error message, you might try running the licensing repair tool anyway.

When I started Bridge CS3, I got the message, "Adobe Bridge requires Pentium 4, Celeron Core Duo, or Core 2 compatible processor." It warned me that if I proceded, the program might run suboptimally. Once I did that, the program ran just fine (I'm using Vista compatibility mode, though I don't know whether that is necessary). After running the tool and starting Photoshop, it asked me to enter my serial number. This time, when I started Photoshop, I got the error message, "Licensing for this product has stopped working." That led me to the Adobe Licensing Repair Tool. I should say at the outset that I had previously downloaded the no-activation-required installation file, which may no longer be available from Adobe. Today, I tried one last time before giving up, and it worked. I tried that, but it didn't work, even when I tried to run them under older compatibility modes.

The only suggested solution I found was to install it to something other than the default location.

Photoshop would start to open, but wouldn't open completely. I tried repeatedly to install and run Photoshop CS3 on it. Last Fall, I bought a new Dell Vostro with an Intel I7 core and Windows 10. 5 year old Toshiba Satellite, both runnning Windows 10. I've had a similar problem: I successfully installed Photoshop CS3 on two older laptops, a 13 year old Dell Vostro and a ca.
