so I got adobe cs3 master edition..

anyway, every program installed fine at first.. but here's the thing..

I had adobe after effects 7.0.. and a whole lot of plugins and presets.. and I tried to put the plugins and presets into adobe after effects cs3.. but I did a really bad job copying and pasting.. which totally killed the program. So.. I tried reinstalling it. It worked fine, but then got stuck on "repairing shared components".

so, I tried completely uninstalling it and then installing it again, and the same thing happens.

Does anyone know what's wrong?

some other things (don't know if they matter):

I have a vista laptop

I have plenty of memory left (like 88 gb)

I've waited about half an hour for it to finish "repairing shared components".. maybe it takes longer?

I have no clue what you did. It saddens me to say this, but the "Repair" function in the installer is useless, so most likely it has completely messed up everything. Therefore uninstall again and use the CS3 clean scripts before attempting a new install. Copying presets is ill-advised except for the ones you created yourself. Others from AE7 may not function at all in CS3, so there's no point in overwriting the ones the CS3 installer puts in place. As for your plugins - depending on what they are, a proper re-install of them may be required. Some plugins and plugin suites install additional files and store their paths in configuration files or the registry, so they may refuse to work without them.

Mylenium

All the info you need is here:

<http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html>

Mylenium

ok.. I did that.. but it's still saying

"After Effects error: plug in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS#\Support files\Plug-ins\Effects\Standard\Extentions\MMXsup.AEX" could not be loaded (126)

(48 :: 46)"

Umm, what kind of machine do you have? An older AMD processor perchance? Or a Celeron? You can remove the plugin mentioned in the error message, but will loose performance, so it's more advisable to first check all your BIOS and operating system settings. In clear words: some system library is not in place or of the wrong version which prevents AE from initializing properly. this would be the case on AMD systems, as Windows has to install a set of different patches. So check this out and to be on teh safe side, run a Windows Update.

Mylenium

well, it turns out the program works fine. I just need to click ok a ton of times to all the error messages.

It's annoying, but I'll deal with it.

Thamks a lot for your help