{"id":12322,"date":"2007-04-19T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/cs3-cleanup-script-for-windows-available.html"},"modified":"2007-04-19T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:07:54","slug":"cs3_cleanup_script_for_windows_available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/cs3_cleanup_script_for_windows_available\/","title":{"rendered":"CS3 cleanup script for Windows available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/contact\/cs3clean.html\">Windows cleanup script<\/a> (alongside the equivalent Mac version) that removes vestiges of the Photoshop CS3 beta as well as other Adobe pre-release software.&#160; If you&#8217;re having trouble installing Photoshop CS3 or other new Adobe apps, this script may help.&#160; You may also want to consult the tech notes on removing the PS beta on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/knowledgebase\/index.cfm?id=kb401492\">Windows XP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/knowledgebase\/index.cfm?id=kb401501\">Vista<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/cfusion\/knowledgebase\/index.cfm?id=kb401502\">Mac OS X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The download page warns of nuclear holocaust, rivers of blood, etc. resulting from the use of the script.&#160; I <em>think<\/em> the team is just being extremely conservative and cautious, but I believe there is a chance that the script will remove serial number info for Acrobat 8 (meaning you&#8217;ll need to re-enter your serial\/reactivate).<\/p>\n<p>One specific point: A number of people have asked whether it&#8217;s strictly necessary to deactivate the beta prior to uninstalling it and installing the shipping version.&#160; Deactivation is accomplished via the Help menu, so it&#8217;s obviously a problem if you&#8217;ve already uninstalled the app.&#160; The good news is that although deactivating is a good idea, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be necessary prior to installing the shipping version.<\/p>\n<p>All this stuff can be pretty tweaky and system-specific, so please let us know if you run into problems.&#160; Chances are I don&#8217;t know the answers myself, but I can route info back to the right people as necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has posted a Windows cleanup script (alongside the equivalent Mac version) that removes vestiges of the Photoshop CS3 beta as well as other Adobe pre-release software.&#160; If you&#8217;re having trouble installing Photoshop CS3 or other new Adobe apps, this script may help.&#160; You may also want to consult the tech notes on removing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}