I dont know if you fixed it yet but this is what I did to fix the same problem.

The repair tool from Adobe worked great.

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html

Thanks, your instructions helpd me alot

wow...wssparky  thanks a TON. I got the adobe error today and it was driving me INSANE. I *think* the problem had to do with my having to disable all my startup stuff in Windows7 to fix a problem I was having updating some other Microsoft software. Anyway MS said  disable everything using the msconfig and it was after that when Adobe stopped functioning (my McAfee is having an issue as well) properly.

At any rate I got the adobe "fix" and it worked GREAT!

I was NOT having any luck to begin with by going to the support area at adobe.com (HEY ADOBE PEOPLE>> TAKE NOTE)

searching "support" for the error code tells me "Your search of Support for error 148:3 did not match any documents." which I find interesting

so I finally googled the error code and found this thread.

now a word to those who are less than kind in their posts and make people feel  stupid for asking the question here...I would submit these forums are for us (the users) to help each other (read: be nice to each other) so we can USE the software we OWN.

I'm frankly disappointed that going to the Adobe "SUPPORT" was fruitless. MY problem was with the CS4 suite: I own the master collection which wasn't exactly cheap....it wold be nice if I, as a customer was able to at least FIND Adobe's OWN error code on their support section.

again... thanks to wssparky

No need to think that turning off the start up programs in Msconfig was the problem. It was the problem. Start up contains the main action for starting up the DRM for Adobe that is found in services. If you uncheck the wrong thing in startup, at least photoshop, will not run. Not sure about the rest of the Master Collection.

So next time you call a tech support up (lets say McAfee) and they tell you to turn off Startup items to troubleshoot just remember to go back in startup and turn the Adobe stuff back on and reboot. Otherwise it will be fun city all over again.

Wondering how many people, over the years with Adobe license issues, used Window Washer but didn't post that fact in their post........

If you do a forum search AVG has a bad history with PS CS4.

I've been having problems with CS4 lately. I installed it about 2 months

ago and it worked perfectly. A couple days ago, I opened Photoshop, and

it gave me an error code that my serial number was invalid. I thought it

might have been the licensing error, so I tried that solution. It didn't

work. I tried to open CS4 again, and it didn't even open the program. It

gave me a window that said: "Run on a 30 day trial basis" or: "Enter

your serial number here:". I entered my serial number from the back of

my CS4 DVD case, and it said that it was INVALID! Why would it have been

valid 2 months ago, but doesn't work now? I contacted Adobe support, but

they have not gotten back to me.

Who do I contact to fix this? I had a very hard time finding a way to

contact Adobe, and what I did may not have been the right thing.

That's actually what I tried, but I have not yet recieved a reply.

I'll try this. Thanks!

I have recently been cleaning up some of the programs in my computer in the hopes of getting it to load faster (bad idea for me). Photoshop was giving me the error message 148:3 and telling me to restart the computer. After reading these posts, I realized I had unchecked several startup services, one of which was FLEXnet Licensing service. When I rechecked this service and restarted the computer, Photoshop started without the error message. Problem solved - thanks to some of you on this forum!

Hi to all,

I face the same problem with Error Code (148:3) and I installed it on Windows 7 , 32-bit Operating system.

Please help!

Anton

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Don,t know what your problem is

Noel Carboni but I have a fully paid copy of the programme that I purchased direct from Adobe. Just because

People have turned off the licenced option under msconfig does not make them a thief

- next time you want to make such accusations i suggest you get a good lawyer, as a small business

Owner who pays his way for everything I can do without a self important big mouth

like you making such comments.

Hey buddy,

I do not know about your intentions but I have a fully paid copy of the programme which I purchased direct from Adobe. The other link which I refered to is another program I have found through the web because the primary one has the same Error Code 148:3.

Anton

Here is a link to another solution that works perfectly without having to download anything - http://jaredheinrichs.com/photoshop-cs4-error-1483.html

It's really strange, I never had this problem with a hacked version of photoshop, when my business went big and I could afford Photoshop I bought it to have a legal copy, new computer new installation and I started having problems, maybe Adobe should get hackers to RE-PROGRAM their faulty apps to actually work..

Thank you for misreading what I actually wrote and so says someone who most likely lives in the good ol USA and who benefits from her good fortune. Try living in poverty where you make no money while trying to be honest, it just doesn't work that way my friend. At least I ended up actually buying the software when I could (while almost going bankrupt in the process) and unfortunately I would not say that I have reached a level of success that you speak of, maybe one day. Not to mention that Adobe hikes up proces if you don't live in the US. Lightroom cost us $50 more that you would pay.

My actual rant was that bought software is usually buggy vs hacked software, no that's a sad fact.