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Fixing Adobe Photoshop CS3 FLEXNet Licensing Issue !

Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:00.

Photoshop LogoIf you use Adobe Creative Suite 3 and if it stops working asking you to uninstall and then reinstall the application citing some license issue as shown below:

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Licensing for this product has stopped working.
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You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help.
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OK
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Don't panic as you won't necessarily need to re-install the application suite as suggested by the error, it could be a simple FLEXNet Licensing Service issue, which can easily be resolved as described next.


Fixing Adobe CS2/CS3 Licensing Issue:

  1. Goto Start -> Run, type in services.msc in Run box and press Enter.
  2. Navigate to FLEXnet Licensing Service and enable it as shown below:
    3. FLEXNET Licence
  3. Restart computer and launch any Adobe CS3 application, The error should be fixed now.
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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 08:17.

What if it's missing from Services window?

I have a problem, can't open photoshop after installation. Tried all, trying to install it in simplified mode but can't find Flexnet to enable it before Rebooting.

What might be the cause?

viktor
vnagornyy@viktorix.com

i have the same problem.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 06:54.

i have the same problem. can't find flexnet anywhere on pc...

Thanks

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 00:36.

It worked for me, somehow it was set to manual and not started :/ But now everything works okay, thank you :)

THANKSSSS

Submitted by lostboy (not verified) on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 13:13.

Thanks alot it solved the problem super fast.

Thanks a lot!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 07:06.

This solves my problem.

It's missing.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 17:40.

Yeah the FLEXnet licensing is missing from the services window.

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