
Step 5) Time to edit! (Or we can call it “hack” if it makes you feel special). Mine is 448MB (a far cry from the 1024 it wants), so I decided to use the minimum of 400. On this screen you will find how much RAM you have available. Right click on a My Computer icon and click “Properties”. Step 4) This is where you’re going find out what your new values will be. See all that crap? You need to figure out what you want. Step 3) This is where you need your brain. Step 2) Open “Adobe CS3” and straight up delete “winmediabootstrapper.msi”. Select everything and drag it to your folder.ĭisc Image: Mount your image. You can call yours “Plumber Crack Pics” for all Adobe cares.ĭVD: Now, if you have a DVD, simply open My Computer, right click on the DVD and click “Explore”. All options are easiest if you make a nice folder somewhere to work out of. Step 1) You need to get all the files onto your hard drive.


Of course, what if you don’t mind PhotoShop being slow? Illustrator maturing your art like a fine wine? Some may require that full gigabyte, but others only need 512MB or less. Turns out, each component in the suite has a specific memory requirement. So when you get something like CS3 and it starts asking for a gig of RAM in your POS notebook, it seems to mock you with the line “Please upgrade or adjust your system”. BOTH my systems are at least 5 years old (I’ve had to replace parts here and there). We don’t all have the money for a brand-new supercomputer, or even a new-ISH thing from a few years ago. I also want to make it VERY clear that NO step or modification to these directions will let you bypass the licensing or serial number-requiring parts of the software. It also took me quite a while to do, So I figured I’d bring it out of the archives and back into the light. Open a “Terminal” and type: sudo nano /private/etc/hostsĬopy & Paste these lines: 127.0.0.1 is something I wrote up a while ago, and I rather liked it.

To block adobe from phoning home you need to modify your hosts file: on a mac.
