Be sure you have rebooted recently and that your account is admin capable.
Try that first.
Bob
My OS is Vista Home Premium and I recently had to install a new hd on my laptop. I added all the Windows updates (including SP 1) and then tried to install Adobe CS 4.
I've used CS 4 with this same laptop and OS, but for some reason, now when I try to install CS 4, Adobe is not picking up on SP 1.
Adobe runs a system profile check when the install disk is inserted and then tells me I can't install CS 4 because I don't have SP 1 installed (but i DO have sp 1).
I tried opening the Adobe disk and running the Autoplay file as an administrator but it didn't get around the system check.
I've installed CS 4 two previous times on this same machine, same set up, with no problems.
Any suggestions would be appreciated--someone else may have posted on this same problem but I couldn't find it, so if you have a link to a previous discussion, that would be great too!
Thanks!

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