Stop adobe activation cs5

I've chatted with 3 different people and the last one told me that my serial number can be activated on 7 more PCs 3 out of 10 are activated , but I still CAN'T manage to install CS5 anywhere. I'm done for today and will report back tomorrow! Thank you for keeping us updated! As of my information only CS2 and CS3 activation servers are shutdown. I didnt even need to sign in with my adobe ID, the seriual number during the installtion was enough.

So the second support guy was right! I am still wondering though why it doesnt work now on my boss' Win10 laptop although the 30 day test period worked just fine. I'll dig further into it! You might try telling your boss that such old software can't really be expected to run, and it's time to get up to date with the exciting new features of InDesign CC Your mileage may vary.

And it may be that activation cannot work even if the rest of the app cannot. However, here is a suggestion which may help with getting through to support, who don't seem to be trained in old products and often come up with questionable information about them. Do NOT say you have a problem with CS5, do not mention installing, do not mention Windows 10, do not complain, or get sidetracked.

Say you need an "activation count reset". Use these exact words and no other form of them, with no other background. Repeat the words, don't try to explain them. Obviously you will need to give them the serial number etc. If they try to send you back to the forums, say the forums sent you and said that only official support can help, and ask for a supervisor. Warning, scammers may contact you privately pretending to be Adobe staff.

Adobe will never send you a private message asking you to email an account that isn't adobe. Adobe never ask you for their password. These scammers want your Adobe info, credit cards, your money and control of your computer, please take care. Actually, your response was more helpful than the so highly acclaimed "experienced support personel". InDesign CC wont be possible, because you need a steady internet connection for the software to work which is - mildly expressed - customer unfriendly.

All Adobe want you to do is spend more money for newer software although the older one is working perfectly fine.

We are not a fancy design office and my boss needs Photoshop on rare occasions and is totally happy with CS5. Why does she has to get a subscription which is expensive if she uses photoshop once a month or maybe twice? Before I've read your response, I had a chat with somebody from the support. I explained the problem almost in the same way you suggested.

He asked if my internet works which it of course does. I asked him to deactivate from his side which "he was not able able to" since we have retail versions of CS5. So he "did something on his side" which would allow me to use the serial number on the other laptop without any issues. All I had to do was uninstall without deactivating CS5 on laptop nr. Of course I uninstalled the software on laptop nr. When I got asked for the serial number, he accepted it, but told the same as before "this product has already been activated" and the serial number was right.

Will report back in a couple of minutes! Who says that CC needs a steady internet connection? CC works fine offline, you just need to connect each 99 days to renew the lease. It sounds like the error message you are getting when trying to actvate is related to the activation problems other CS5. Set "Compatibility mode" to Windows 7. Then run illustrator. So I just had another try deactivating the license through Photoshop 64bit version and it worked. Earlier I tried to deactivate it with Illustrator I gues bit version.

I hope this helps others as well. I suspect a different error. Adobe Support Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Need to activate offline? Activation error codes. Here are some common activation error codes and their solutions. See Activation errors in Adobe Digital Editions. Set your computer clock to the correct date and time.

Causes include connection timeouts due to firewall settings and failure to resolve a hostname due to proxy settings. See Resolve connection errors to check your firewall or proxy settings and try again.

See Error Launch Creative Suite 5. See Activate and deactivate Adobe products. You can attempt the process again at the end of the hour period. Causes include connection timeouts due to firewall settings and failure to resolve a host name due to proxy settings.

See Configuration error Creative Cloud. Deactivation issues. What is deactivation? Here are solutions to some common deactivation problems.

Did you uninstall your apps without deactivating them? Choose your Product. Acrobat DC. Sign out from the account page. For more information see, Sign out from account page. Acrobat DC perpetual license Launch the app and sign in when prompted.

CS6, CS5. Have you lost access to your previous computer? Deactivate option dimmed or missing? Sign in to your account. See the help article below. Either downgrade your OS, set-up a virtual machine or get all new, bit software.

Your choice. There is no such thing as a "forever license. Eventually, all Creative Suite products will stop working. Use at your own risk. Dave points out the real issue here. It's only perpetual for the time it takes the rest of the world to move on and leave you behind. CS5 is ten years old, a lifetime in computers. Sooner or later it will be useless, how fast depends only on how many changes you make to the rest of your system. Adobe Support Community. Turn on suggestions.

Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Request to Adobe support - Photoshop CS5 without activation needed. Follow Report. Community guidelines. Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting.

Learn more. Test Screen Name. Jump to latest reply. Today activation servers still exist for CS4 upwards but no-one outside of Adobe could know what the future hold for activation of those older software packages, as the only officially supported versions are CC v20 and v21 The idea of using software forever is in reality a myth.

In Response To davescm. You say you use the current version but don't have a subscription. I didn't say I don't have subscription. I just said I don't like the idea. Mikolajn wrote: "CS6 was the complete product" Hi James Wamser has been putting together a free guide with all the new features of each version of Photoshop.

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