Andrew,
Thanks for the info. Ive had CS on computer for three days and have put off activation in case I needed to reinstall. Your post will have me activating today. Thanks Pal.
Andrew,
Which previous version did you use When I installed CS I already had version 7.01 on my system so it didnt ask for a previous CD. The only full version I have is PS4, having upgraded via PS5, PS6 and finally PS7 at some point I intend to get a laptop and put the CS suite on that. Could I use my PS7 CD as a qualifying version because I had heard that some users have had problems upgrading from PS4 long phone calls to Adobe etc.
David,
Yes, You should be able to use the PS7 CD.
David
Like Photo Help had mentioned, you could do it with Photoshop 7. Again just for kicks I used a Full version of Photoshop 6.01 CD as the previous verification and I also tried it with the updated version of 7.0 CD. Both worked without a hitch.
Andrew
Just to clarify my initial post regarding Uninstall/Install Reactivation. You are given the following 2 options when UNinstalling CS:
Option#1-Standard Uninstall- Removes all Application Files without deleting the Activation Data so you can reininstall CS without having to reactivate CS.
Option#2-Advanced Uninstall- Completely removes all Application Files and Activation Data for CS. This option requires you to reactivate CS.
Andrew
In my experience, there seems to be no need to worry about activation of CS. I just reformatted the hard drive on my laptop, reinstalled Win and Office XP and CS and reactivated all in a few seconds over the internet.
I have previously installed CS on two different partitions of my desktop hard drive and have changed motherboard, memory (more than once), different graphics cards have been in and out and now I have a new processor. Neither CS, Office nor Win XP have required reactivation with all the hardware changes.
The only time CS has asked for immediate reactivation on my desktop is when I had to restore some of my system files which became corrupted. Again a very quick process but a bit worrying if you happened to be somewhere without access to the internet or a phone.
I can see why doing a system restore would cause the grace period to end and require immediate activation but if CS was already activated and you restored to a check point made after activation I dont see why reactivation should be required. I guess if you do have to restore its best to be sure you have working web connection.
I didn’t actually do a restore. I ran the system file checker command line utility (sfc/scannow) as I had been getting some strange system errors on startup due to the hardware-related crashes I’d had so I presume this brought some of system files back a bit.
mick, that’s very odd. as far as i know (from what we’ve been told here), the activation info is in 2 locations: "somewhere" undocumented on the hard drive, and somewhere in the registry. don’t know what SFC could possibly do to mess up activation. Can anyone at Adobe comment on that?
Well I had been changing a lot of hardware at the time as well so maybe something flipped. I had changed the motherboard for one the same that day, plus two different brands of different speed memory in the previous few days and there were no reactivation messages until I ran the sfc. Reactivation was no problem though.
