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I’m thinking of upgrading to CS and trying to find more technical details about activation (I am not looking for a crack).
Adobe web site is not much help.
From Adobe web site:
"As long as you don’t "low-level" reformat your hard drive, you will not be required to reactivate Photoshop CS software. Please note that normal utilities (provided by the operating system vendor) for reformatting the hard drive do not perform a "low-level" reformat."
They also mention that
"Adobe has worked with a third-party developer on its product activation process"
Does anybody know where they store the activation information if usual formatting won’t erase it? Is there some areas on the harddrive what users cannot access?
If there is then I still want to know what information is stored there and who was the
third party developer whose software is used for activation? I always thought that the best way to get rid of viruses and spyware is reformat and reinstall but it seems to be not the case anymore, scary.
I don’t mind WinXP activation as there are good descriptions how it works so I can understand it. But there is also Intuit whose activation software installed spyware on paying customers computers.
I’m not gonna upgrade until I fully understand how the CS activation works, what information is being collected and sent back to Adobe (and third party) and where is it stored?
Thanks
Adobe web site is not much help.
From Adobe web site:
"As long as you don’t "low-level" reformat your hard drive, you will not be required to reactivate Photoshop CS software. Please note that normal utilities (provided by the operating system vendor) for reformatting the hard drive do not perform a "low-level" reformat."
They also mention that
"Adobe has worked with a third-party developer on its product activation process"
Does anybody know where they store the activation information if usual formatting won’t erase it? Is there some areas on the harddrive what users cannot access?
If there is then I still want to know what information is stored there and who was the
third party developer whose software is used for activation? I always thought that the best way to get rid of viruses and spyware is reformat and reinstall but it seems to be not the case anymore, scary.
I don’t mind WinXP activation as there are good descriptions how it works so I can understand it. But there is also Intuit whose activation software installed spyware on paying customers computers.
I’m not gonna upgrade until I fully understand how the CS activation works, what information is being collected and sent back to Adobe (and third party) and where is it stored?
Thanks
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