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Nov 8, 2010 By Jared Heinrichs 44 Comments

Adobe Illustrator has detected a problem in the windows registry which needs to be corrected to work properly.

Are you getting the error “Adobe Illustrator has detected a problem in the windows registry which needs to be corrected to work properly. Would you like Illustrator to correct the problem now”? If you are it is because Adobe’s update software did a number on some settings.

The only way I have found to get rid of that error message “Adobe Illustrator has detected a problem in the windows registry which needs to be corrected to work properly. Would you like Illustrator to correct the problem now?” is to:

  1. Close all CS5 applications
  2. Right click shortcut to Adobe Illustrator Cs5
  3. Tell it to run as Administrator.
  4. This will give enough permissions for Adobe to fix the registry items that it corrupted in the first place!

As you can see when I right click “Adobe Illustrator” I am prompted with the “Run as Administrator”.

Adobe Illustrator has detected a problem in the windows registry which needs to be corrected to work properly. Would you like Illustrator to correct the problem now

Let me know if this helped you fix the error “Adobe Illustrator has detected a problem in the windows registry which needs to be corrected to work properly. Would you like Illustrator to correct the problem now?”

Filed Under: Adobe Illustrator Tagged With: How To

Comments

  1. Vcue says

    Feb 3, 2011 at 9:13 am

    It worked for me!!! I feel tired of Adobe Software speaking a completely different language than MS Windows

  2. Andreas Meyer says

    Feb 11, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Thank you very much for this simple and correct instruction! It works. 😉

  3. Pelle says

    Feb 18, 2011 at 12:45 am

    Thanks for a solution for a nagging issue

  4. Felicia Nilsson says

    Feb 18, 2011 at 6:56 am

    Worked! Tyvm

  5. Bernard says

    Mar 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    Wow! Worked like a charm. Glad I didn’t go down any of those other roads that had talked about numerous registry changes, registery cleaners, re-installing, etc.

    Thanks!!!

  6. Ken says

    Mar 16, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Thanks. I love the Adobe software but their install and uninstall is atrocious. Come on Adobe.

  7. regnam says

    Mar 19, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    thanks man

  8. steprock says

    May 4, 2011 at 8:34 am

    That worked! How simple! Thanks for posting this solution. It wasn’t a big deal, but an annoying issue. And I second the opinion on how awful Adobe installs are.

  9. Nirmal says

    Jun 26, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    Thank you very much! That saved me from punching my monitor every time I saw that error 🙂

  10. Terzap says

    Jul 5, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    THANK you so very much!

  11. Anwar says

    Aug 9, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    This is the solution for this issue 🙂

    Thank you.

  12. Dave says

    Sep 8, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Thanks! Worked like a charm. Glad I didn’t go to more extreme measures.

  13. GG says

    Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Worked, thanks.

  14. anom says

    Sep 22, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Yeahhh!!

    You saved my life solving my problem with this simple instructions!!

    THANKS! :*

  15. Ron Fredericks says

    Sep 25, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    Great fix, thank you.

  16. doug says

    Sep 30, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    You Rock!

  17. joku says

    Oct 17, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    perfect, thanks man 🙂

  18. John says

    Oct 19, 2011 at 10:20 am

    I just kind of ignored it for several months… YES!!!

  19. James says

    Nov 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Lol!!!
    This problem has really pissed me off for sometime, but you – with a single click that restores normal functioning – you are the charm man!!! TXS

  20. Luke says

    Nov 22, 2011 at 7:11 am

    Thank you! That worked like a charm!

  21. Alan says

    Dec 6, 2011 at 9:42 am

    Like many others, I ignored this problem for months because answering “yes” and “no” had the same result – nothing!

    This solution worked first time!

  22. Jason says

    Dec 10, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    Simply awesome. I looked over several sites that had me digging in the registry, thought I might as well give this a try before doing anything drastic, and it worked. Simple as that-Thanks!

  23. Eoghan says

    Dec 12, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    Worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!

  24. Green says

    Dec 18, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    THNX A LOT!!!
    =)))

  25. Melvie Mar Baylon says

    Dec 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Thanks Jared! God bless! 🙂

  26. Felipe GLauber says

    Jan 17, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    THAAAAAAANK YOU

  27. dave says

    Jan 30, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    AWESOME! it worked. I have been putting up with that for months!
    thank you

  28. dave says

    Jan 31, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Also I have found out what you can do is…right click on Illustrators icon, then properties, then tick the little box that says “run as administrator” then click apply. That way you don’t have to right click it every time. It will stay that way. Good luck All
    Dave

  29. Ralf Burghart says

    Feb 18, 2012 at 8:07 am

    Yep! That’s it! and it works with cs4 and cs5
    Thanks

  30. Largie says

    Feb 18, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    worked for me too, thanks SO much!

  31. Danny says

    Feb 24, 2012 at 6:37 am

    In my case the problem returns to restart my computer. The ultimate solution is to always start it as administrator?

  32. Viper says

    Feb 27, 2012 at 5:18 am

    Works, thanks!

  33. Jarbas says

    Feb 28, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    Worked for me, thx!!

  34. Dart says

    Mar 19, 2012 at 5:39 am

    Worked like a charm. Thanks.

  35. Suzan says

    Mar 22, 2012 at 10:48 am

    Worked like a charm. Thanks for posting this and making the instructions so clear and easy to understand.

  36. Adam says

    Apr 10, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to make this post! Very simple, and worked immediately. Adobe software provides me with a career, but also a lot of frustrations…

  37. Joe Willliams says

    Apr 13, 2012 at 8:51 am

    Yes, this worked for me. Thank you. Should have known this myself, but I’ve been using Windows so long I still forget about the relatively new security features.

    My issue was actually created by McAfee’s Registry Cleaner though. Haven’t had any trouble with Adobe’s installers.

    Thanks again!

  38. max says

    May 7, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    Thank so much … it drove me crazy ….

  39. ronidux says

    Jul 24, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    Superb! Thanks a lot

  40. Amber says

    Nov 4, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    worked great and super easy! thanks!

  41. ngedigk says

    Feb 19, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    It works, thank you!

  42. Dave says

    Mar 19, 2013 at 8:05 am

    (Windows 8)
    That solved the problem with opening Illustrator. PremierePro CS5 was taking 3 or 4 minutes to open. I chose “Run as Administrator” and now it opens in less than 10 seconds.
    A big thank you for the solution.

  43. Yusuf Karriem says

    Sep 26, 2013 at 8:28 am

    Thanks Jared but it didn’t work for me, maybe i’m doing something wrong.

  44. flavio cesar says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Nice done this worked perfect!!!

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