Gehe auf „ Start“ > „ Verwaltung“ > „ Computerverwaltung“ > „ Dienste und Anwendungen“ > Doppelklick auf „ Dienste“ > finde in der Liste der Dienste den Eintrag „ Arbeitsstationsdienst“ > sollte dieser nicht gestartet sein (Spalte Status: Gestartet), dann starte diesen durch z.B. Wiederholen Sie den Vorgang zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt.“ ausgeben, versuche folgende einfache Lösung (bei mir unter Win7 64bit):
Sollte auch Dein Adobe Application Manager bei dem Versuch, Dein teuer erstandenes CS5-Paket upzudaten die Meldung „ Es wird bereits eine andere Instanz von Updater ausgeführt. Therefore I will explain it here for all German users: Cost me a while to figure out, how I find the correct process on my german system. Great Job, this workaround for the „ Cannot be installed as another instance is running“ problem worked for my Win7 64bit system as well.
( Administrative Tools Folder Opens)ģ) Double Click on Services Icon ( The Services Panel Opens).Ĥ) On the Right side of the Services Panel is a list of services available for the computer, arranged in alphabetical order.ĥ) Scroll down to the service “Work Station” (Probably the second last of the list).Ħ) Right Click it and “Start” the service.ħ) Now install your updates. However before installing the updates, turn off all Antivirus, Spyware & any third party Firewall programs on your computer and as always restart your computer even if the updater does not tell you to do so.ġ) Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel (The Control Panel Opens)Ģ) Double Click on Administrative Tools Icon.
I tried it on my machine it worked like a charm ( WinXP SP3 – 32 Bit), No reason why it should not be a success on other windows platforms : But, God bless him as he has brought relief to millions of Photoshop Lovers.
I forgot which forum it was as well as the name of the submitter. However in one of the forums I came across a procedure which helped me to install the updates smoothly.
Some have cursed Adobe & demanded their money back & praised the illegal torrent sites. There is ranting & cursing in all the photoshop forums across the globe. While others have scoured all the local discs of their computer searching for files ( C > Programs > Adobe > Photoshop CS5 Floders or C > Programs > Common Files Folders > Adobe etc)., some have in desperation formatted their computers & Re installed Photoshop CS5, even then the updater gives the same damn message.
Some users have also gone to the extent of uninstalling & re installing Photoshop CS5 - No success. Try as you may ( Task manager, third party programs to identify the mysterious ‘another instance running ‘ fails). Cannot be installed as another instance is running… please close it & try again “. Under normal circumstances : Double Click & follow the instructions (as advised by Adobe ) does not work. None of these install smoothly as was the case in previous versions CS4, CS3, CS etc. "Installing Updates ( recent ones : Bridge, Photoshop CS5 & camera RAW ) have given Photoshop CS5 users a headache. Pronil, I had posted the underpasted maessage in this forum, after reading your post, but had forgotton the name of the forum or the poster's name ( ie.