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1. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
MichaelKazlow Mar 5, 2009 10:14 AM (in response to Bullitt667)Uninstall Acrobat. Turn off all anti-virus and spyware protection programs.
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2. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
Bullitt667 Mar 5, 2009 12:52 PM (in response to Bullitt667)Should I uninstall all of Creative Suite 1 also?
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3. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
P Spier Mar 5, 2009 1:18 PM (in response to Bullitt667)It's not necessary, or even necessarily desirable to uninstall anything, except maybe Flash Player (version 8 of which caused problems with the CS3 installer). The CS4 installer will remove previous versions of Acrobat automatically when it runs.
Lots of us leave the old suite versions installed for legacy work without any problems at all.
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4. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
Bullitt667 Mar 6, 2009 9:24 AM (in response to Bullitt667)I currently have Flash Player, V10. Will it be a problem? -
5. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
P Spier Mar 6, 2009 9:50 AM (in response to Bullitt667)To the best of my knowledge, no. Version 9 certainly wasn't an issue for me when I installed Design Premium.
Version 10 is included in many of the CS4 bundles. -
6. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
Bullitt667 Mar 9, 2009 7:57 AM (in response to Bullitt667)Peter
I haven't installed WinXP SP3 yet as the PageMaker Converter on CS1 wouldn't work with SP3 installed.
Should I install SP3 prior to installing the CS4 upgrade?
Thanks,
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7. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
P Spier Mar 9, 2009 10:39 AM (in response to Bullitt667)That's entirely up to you. I still run SP2 because I didn't find anything in my SP3 testing that improved my system operation and I didn't want to cripple existing installations.
When I installed CS4 I got a warning that SP3 was required, said OK or whatever, and the installation proceeded and all was just fine.
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8. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
Bullitt667 Mar 11, 2009 9:05 AM (in response to Bullitt667)Successful Upgrade - After installing CS4 upgrade, InDesign, Bridge and Version Cue failed to install.
After an hour on the phone to Adobe Tech support with Samantha, and using the Adobe CS3 clean.exe 3 or 4 times, and reinstalling, everything seems to be up and running.
Tech support person was very knowledgeable and asked the right questions!
Kudo's to Adobe for hiring Samantha for tech support!
Now, if only I didn't have to go through all of that just because I had installed and uninstalled a trial version of CS4 which left some registry entries . . . -
9. Re: Upgrading from CS1 to CS4
P Spier Mar 11, 2009 9:27 AM (in response to Bullitt667)>Now, if only I didn't have to go through all of that just because I had installed and uninstalled a trial version of CS4 which left some registry entries . . .
That IS a pain in the ...
If you do a lot of testing, as I sometimes do, you might want to think about investing in another hard drive and some imaging software, both of which are pretty inexpensive (and are great insurance in case of disaster). I use a removable bay, too, so I can just plug in whatever drive I want, but that's more money. In any case, this allows me to have the advantages of a test platform without the need for a whole second computer, and I never have to put my production system at risk with trial software.
Even the imaging software alone would help. I use Acronis TrueImage which has a try-and-decide feature (which I don't use) that makes changes first in a virtual partition until you want to make them permanent, but just having an image of the machine before ANY new program is installed has been an occasional lifesaver -- images work even when System Restore doesn't, which in my case seems to be every time I really wish it would. :(
Peter



