try undoing the windows restore.
as weird as that sounds, it sometimes works.

ahhh, windows..
how i hate you. -___-

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It must be frustrating
I hate things like that.

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That truly sucks.

Only thing I can think of (short of doing a full windows reinstall) is uninstalling CS3 and seeing if you can track down its registry entries and delete them (after backing up the registry of course) along with the cs3 folder in the "program files" directory. Then reinstalling. Though its not a recommended route...

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I'm sorry to hear you are having this kind of problems. Unfortunately I don't use CS3 so I can't help you.

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Lol I love that it actually said "catastrophic" faliure. I can help you with this it's quite simple.
There is a virus that has been a global problem for the past 2 weeks, and Adobe AND Microsoft were hit (even though they won't admit it, Xbox Live stopped working). If you can't get a virus program to update and work, then _{maybe get a Mac}

Firstly turn off your updates for windows its a pain in the rear!! then I am just as lost!! good luck

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<sub>Yep, it's set to ask for permission but for some reason this was one of those updates where it just does it without asking

Waiting back from Adobe to reply to my question. Ha, we'll see if it ever happens.

I just love how their customer service line is only open Mon-Fri 9-5. Great. Yeah, I don't work, I stay at home all day.

Thanks for nothing.

The only options I have is to phone from work or take the day off just to sort it out.</sub>

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<sub>It's so annoying, I never have problems with anyone on my computer, and then this just seems impossible to sort out without wiping the hard drive and starting again.

Some reason vaio don't supply the windows disk, I think you're meant to get it off the Hard drive, but they haven't split it so it'll wipe the C including the recovery. I guess I really ought to read the vaio manual...</sub>

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