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How to fix the product expired problem in Adobe Photoshop?

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Are you getting this error while opening Photoshop CS3 or Illustrator CS3
"Product License Has Expired"

1. delete cache.db in "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\"
2. Run the adobe cs3 product
3. enter the products key for adobe cs3 product
4. set read-only attribute for "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db"
5. Click "Next"

6. remove read-only attribute for "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db"
7. "Never register" in Product registration from
8. set read-only attribute for "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db"
9. Complete

PS: if you need to activate another Adobe CS3 product, please do the same thing like above except for the step 1.
Replace the step 1 by
1. remove read-only attribute for "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db"\cache\"
 
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