Adobe Illustrator 2025 – Installation & Activation Guide

Step-by-step setup tutorial for Windows

Before you begin

Tip: Save your work and close all running Adobe apps before starting installation.

Step 1: Run the Installer

1 Launch setup

Locate the Set-up.exe file, right-click → Run as administrator.

Run Illustrator setup
2 Language & location

Select installation language and destination folder. Default settings are recommended.

Language and location selection

Step 2: Installation Process

3 Installing files

Wait while the setup copies necessary files. Installation may take several minutes.

Installing Illustrator
4 Finish installation

Once complete, click close to close the wizard.

Installation complete

Step 3: Copy the patch to a folder

5 File location

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2025\Support Files\Contents\Windows\

Launch Illustrator
6 Copy the Crack+.exe to a folder

Run it as administrator, click search and wait for it to find our illustrator

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Once you find it, patch only illustrator (click the button in the middle), do not touch Creative Cloud (especially if you have multiple Adobe programs on your computer, you will have to reinstall all of them!)

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Troubleshooting

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