how to crack CS3 trial versions

Posted on December 13, 2007 by matchek

after getting fed up failing to legally upgrade from Adobe Trial CS3 to Adobe Design Premium CS3 (see my upgrade horror story). I found this free, extremely simple way to crack Dreamweaver CS3.

[update 1/30 - fixed the .bat file & found an activation crack that will work on Photoshop CS3 & other CS3 applications for win & mac - see comments for insturctions]

  1. download trial version from Adobe website (you have to register or go to bugmenot.com & try to find one there)
  2. When you launch the program for the first time it will ask you for a valid CS3 serial number. If you have one great, but I just ignore this and chose the 30 days option. (once it expires … keep on reading)
  3. [update 12/18] - i’ve created a batch file which does everything described below automatically for you – download it here – right click/”save as” & place it in (win only):
    “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\AMT\”     directory then:
    - create a shortcut to f-adobe.bat on your desktop / run it
    - when Dreamweaver starts first – quit it
    - when it starts again, just click OK … that’s it! :)

OR … u can follow my previous instructions below (i’ve also listed the contents of the bat file on the bottom):

  1. find application.sif file and … rename it -
    go to “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\AMT\” & rename “application.sif” to something like “-application.sif” (i’d recomend backing up application.sif before you do, just to be on the safe side)
  2. when you start Dreamweaver again, you’ll get “you cannot use this product at this time. you must repair the problem …” error mesage … click OK – & it will still START anyways! … dough :)
  3. go back to “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\AMT\” rename the “-application.sif” back to “application.sif”
  4. start Dreamweaver, you’ll get expired prompt – click quit
  5. rename “application.sif” again (go back to step 1 above)

    unfortunately     you have to repeat the whole process every time you shot down the application … but it works!

ps: here’s the content of the batch file in case you wanted to create your own: 

ren application.bak *.sif
..\dreamweaver.exe
ren application.sif *.bak
..\dreamweaver.exe
cd amt
ren application.bak *.sif
exit

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47 Responses

  1. TomSoer, on December 17th, 2007 at 1:24 pm Said:

    Cool info. Thx.

    Reply
  2. olga, on December 27th, 2007 at 3:09 pm Said:

    that doesn’t work with photoshop

    Reply
  3. Adam, on January 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm Said:

    Thanks, your fix worked like a charm…nice work!

    Reply
  4. matchek, on January 19th, 2008 at 5:07 am Said:

    ok here u go – proper CS3 design premium crack
    - download this key genarator
    - enter the serial key
    - activate via phone
    - get the activation code and plug it on the white field of key generator click “get activation code”
    - plug the activation code back to adobe’s activation screen
    - vu a la! … no do NOT update :)

    Reply
  5. tish, on January 25th, 2008 at 5:51 pm Said:

    Hi matchheck downloaded the key genrator followed your instructions however all they keys that this genarator gives me are no good. will keep trying..
    thanks tish

    Reply
  6. matchek, on January 30th, 2008 at 4:44 pm Said:

    k … as far as the key generator, it doesn’t seem to generate the correct “serial number”, but it does work for the activation part, so …
    here’s a link on how to find CS3 serial numbers :)

    Reply
  7. Steve, on February 7th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Said:

    Hey did anyone find or create a crack for adobe lifecyle ES? Please let me know. Thanks

    Reply
  8. n, on February 9th, 2008 at 8:33 pm Said:

    This works but it doesn’t. I download the trial from the adobe website and it does not let me run the trial! It says, “A problem was encountered while trying to load the trial period of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.
    I download the batch file run it get the error message saying something is wrong. I continue Dreamweaver open then 2 seconds later it closes again??? WHY??? This is the first time I have had this trial. Anybody know the answer?

    Reply
  9. n, on February 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm Said:

    The comment before mine says how to find CS3 serial numbers. This is only for Photoshop. Please can you help me find the one for Dreamweaver. I trying typing in the code and it did not work!

    Reply
  10. w00t, on February 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am Said:

    ik worked xD

    Reply
  11. tish, on February 20th, 2008 at 1:39 am Said:

    Well looked up that site for how to find a serial number, and it did not. Still looking to activate my Dreamweaver CS3 9.0V. Any other ways? Thanks

    Reply
  12. Bobsy, on February 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm Said:

    non of above works for me on Fireworks and Flash cs3. when i run the bacth file, nothing happens

    Reply
  13. Jay, on February 23rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm Said:

    I am impress, you are brigth to think of those type of solution.
    Unfortunately, your script and procedure did not (almost) worked on vista…
    Also, should your solution work, with trials already expired?
    Best Regards,
    J…

    Reply
  14. Nick, on February 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm Said:

    Hey, when I tried it, dreamweaver comes up, I click quit, then it comes up again, and gives me the error message. After I click ok, it seems to come up fine, but then suddenly 3 seconds later, everything closes down (including the batch file)!

    Reply
  15. andrew, on February 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Said:

    the first idea doesnt work. it keep entering the same key over and over again

    Reply
  16. Brad, on February 28th, 2008 at 12:52 am Said:

    Same as the above poster, opens then closes after 2 seconds. any help??????

    Reply
  17. lyrica, on February 28th, 2008 at 5:18 pm Said:

    I am having “A problem was encountered while trying to load the trial period for Adobe DreamWeaver CS3. Help Please!

    Reply
  18. Maciek Gregorski, on February 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm Said:

    jay … throw out the vista out of the window (the real one) :)

    sorry, guys – if neither the crack (in comments)nor the batch file work … can’t help you there.

    Reply
  19. Ian, on March 5th, 2008 at 7:39 am Said:

    matchek,

    You wrote below to not update. What should not be updated? Thanks.

    ok here u go – proper CS3 design premium crack
    - download this key genarator
    - enter the serial key
    - activate via phone
    - get the activation code and plug it on the white field of key generator click “get activation code”
    - plug the activation code back to adobe’s activation screen
    - vu a la! … no do NOT update :)

    Reply
  20. Ian, on March 5th, 2008 at 8:33 am Said:

    Hey! I figured it out! It works! Thanks!!!
    But please tell me what you mean about not updating.

    Reply
  21. SATYA ORISSA, on March 12th, 2008 at 7:44 pm Said:

    I just know how to work with dreamweaver. But you made my Dreamweaver work for me.When things don’t work legally, you have to bend the arm. thanks a lot.A Thumbs Up for you.

    Reply
  22. n, on March 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm Said:

    Anybody know? I get an error message saying,”A problem was encountered while loading the trial of Dreamweaver CS3.

    Vista was built in. I have had a trial before trying Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash but when I try Photoshot or Indesign I still get this message!!

    Anybody know the solution.

    The batch file seems to open the file then suddenly the application closes after 3 secs. ??

    Reply
  23. mn012, on March 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm Said:

    Nice…

    Reply
  24. Otter NOx, on April 5th, 2008 at 5:09 pm Said:

    Wow! this ‘patch’ is amazing!!!
    The newer trial versions of the CS3 products no longer have an ‘AMT’ folder it is now ‘amt’. But it still works – I just put the .bat file in there…
    Still, you are amazing!
    Please make more other cool stuff like this … I will recommend your site to so many others!
    Thanks!

    Reply
  25. Jon, on June 5th, 2008 at 4:40 pm Said:

    Some licensing issues with FLEXnet can be solved using the Acrobat patch for Vista. It worked for me on XP and Dreamweaver. The issue I ran into with the trial and the full version was a lack of support for Promise SATA Raid controllers and Macrovision’s Trusted Storage. Here is the link:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3750

    Hope this fixes someone’s frustrating problem of activating… it REALLY helped me out.

    -jh

    dlc4me.com

    Reply
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  27. james, on June 11th, 2008 at 8:11 pm Said:

    worked like a charm, allthough all i did was put the – infront of it i didnt change it back .

    Reply
  28. yyy, on June 17th, 2008 at 7:06 am Said:

    Guys, I couldn’t get any of the above to work (vista), but simply changing my computer system date to a date prior to the trial expiration and starting DW / PS and then changing my system date back once the prog starts works fine.

    Reply
  29. X-Fan, on June 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm Said:

    It works good. When i read your post i was thinking: “tss, it probably won’t work, it’s too simple to be a good crack!”. I was wrong. You kick ass :)

    Thanks for the little trick man (i tried the way of using serial keys and all i found were already registered even with a serial key gen).

    :D

    Reply
  30. shellae76, on June 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm Said:

    It works…. YA-HOOOOO

    YOu are the best!!!. I went right to the *.sif file and renamed it, i didn’t bother with the batch file but it works.
    Thanks

    Reply
  31. Mike, on July 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm Said:

    just for the record – deleting DW CS3 and re-installing the trial did NOT help.

    Reply
  32. Raghu, on July 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am Said:

    Hi,
    Does any one knows Dreamweaver CS3 Serial Key for MAC UK. I tried these but doest work.
    S/N: SN: 1329-0352-5602-3552-4510-1754 1329-0267-4911-3894-4929-5767<

    Please I need it urgently.
    Thanks
    Raghu

    Reply
  33. Ben Swift, on August 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am Said:

    WARNING THIS MIGHT BE A SPYWARE SITE

    http://serials.ws/d.php?n=4644

    try that…

    Reply
  34. Baldaris, on August 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am Said:

    Nice Stuff , Thnk’s for sharing.

    Reply
  35. themalboro.com, on August 28th, 2008 at 1:01 am Said:

    Awesome Cant Believe That Works! Thanks =]

    Reply
  36. Alvaro, on September 1st, 2008 at 11:30 pm Said:

    Well, It seems to work… I think, when I got to help there is no more activate/register option :D

    Reply
  37. Vishu, on September 6th, 2008 at 5:47 am Said:

    Product Name : Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

    Serial Number: 1192-1848-5709-9274-6046-4654

    Reply
  38. Boss007, on September 13th, 2008 at 5:35 am Said:

    HEY MAN THIS WORKED,,can do my work now…woop woop

    ThAnX

    Reply
  39. deman, on October 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm Said:

    No torrent access… can anyone do a lookup for me on
    1127-1710-0856-7404-2510-4550-4895

    Reply
  40. Nick99, on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am Said:

    Hi
    DREAMWEAVER SUCCESS
    I read everything I could find to try and extend my 30 days trial with dreamweaver CS3 to no avail. I kept getting the ‘trial expired, please enter serial number etc’ Trying to activate with key generators etc was unsuccessful. I was just about to give up when I downloaded the complete program again from a source that said ‘With Working Crack’ I installed it, opened the CRACK folder that had another dreamweaver.exe file in it, copied that over the existing dreamweaver.exe and to my delight and amazement off it went. So my advice is look for the programs offering the CRACK file in preference to trying to run with the keygen method. Mine definitely works, on vista too. Nick

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  41. Hainsley, on November 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm Said:

    Awesome you are a genius i have searched the net for days and now its all done thanks to a bat file and you :-)

    Reply
  42. han ngyun, on November 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 am Said:

    Does anyone have a valid Keygen, or serial number for Photoshop CS3?

    Reply
  43. SB, on December 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pm Said:

    Hey!

    it woorked for the trial version.

    Now, when it expired, I used the same technique iwth this crack. I select the batch file worked changed to .bak then quit the application, restarted with batch file, it changed, got the error mesg.

    When clicked, it opened, then in meanwhile shut down.

    It is repeatedly happening every time, but application is not been stable more than 3 – seconds.

    Please Help.

    Reply
  44. gopal, on December 20th, 2008 at 9:39 am Said:

    thanx!!!
    atlast i got the way. i was up fed up searching the right keygen.
    how did u made it?

    Reply
  45. Stefan, on January 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 am Said:

    doesnt work …too old now

    Reply
  46. SIMommyof3, on January 27th, 2009 at 7:21 pm Said:

    Thnx … I thought I was about to loose it. Thie really helped.

    Reply

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