Vista - installating Flash CS3 Professional on Vista

I'm having trouble installing Flash CS3 Professional on my brand new laptop computer that I just bought at best buy 2 days ago.

My computer has Vista Home Premium 32bit on it and the computer is a HP pavilion with AMD Turion X2 processor. 3GB ram, 250 GB hard drive.


I installed this same software on my desktop computer that has XP home edition and it installed just fine.

I was reading other blogs and did the following, but that still didn’t work:

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Get command prompt up. It has to be run with admin rights so save yourself some time and run it this way.........Start/programs/accessories/.....right click command prompt and click run as administrator.

Then paste these commands in 1 after the other

regsvr32 vbscript.dll (THEN PRESS ENTER)

and

regsvr32 jscript.dll (AGAIN PRESS ENTER)

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After I did that I ran the installer and when I'm on the screen where it asks for my Serial Number at the bottom there is a Next button. I then enter my serial and it excepts it with a green check mark. Then when I click on the next button at the bottom window just disappears.

Has anyone had this problem or know how to fix this?

When I go to Task manager and click in the processes tab it shows that Flash is running but the window is nowhere on the screen so I can't continue installing it.

There could be many possibilities. And I can't give you a direct answer but I'll give you some common installation solutions:

Make sure you haven't disable any window services. (services.msc)
In Vista Adobe products don't install correctly with certain services disable. Like "print spooler" for example.

The problem is not in the administrative permission. If you couldn't install it without being an administrator you wouldn't have gotten that far.

Disable your firewall and any antivirus software.

If you bought Flash CS3 directly off adobe website as a downloadable application, you can login again at adobe.com and re-download the installation package. Sometimes the installation package gets currupted or it's using a previous build which can cause trouble for vista with sp1.

Other than that I don't know what else to tell you. I have flash on my Vista Ultimate x64 and it works perfectly. Good Luck!