Actavation sucks!

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

What an amazingly stupid criteria for re-activation!

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

Tru buying a legal version.

Regards,
Uni

Uni wrote:

Tru buying a legal version.

You are suspecting what I am suspecting? That the cracks aren’t completely effective?

It’s funny seeing these guys scramble … LOL

—
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

I say this is BS. Changing screen resolution makes no difference for me. I do have a legal copy.

Norman

In article <JgBub.6359$>, "Norman
Black" wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

I say this is BS. Changing screen resolution makes no difference for me. I do have a legal copy.

Thanks for that, Norman!

Norman Black wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

I say this is BS. Changing screen resolution makes no difference for me. I do have a legal copy.

The keyword is "legal"

Regards,
Uni – as the piraters whine in newsgroups, rather than contact technical support, since that is not an option for them.

Norman

"Farlo" kirjoitti viestiss

In news:, Uni deftly typed:

Uni – as the piraters whine in newsgroups, rather than contact technical support, since that is not an option for them.

If you had a legit license, you’d realize that even then technical support is not free but a costly proposition, often with no better results than the great info from knowledgeable professional that can be found in theses NGs. I know from experience…

—
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I have the legal version. I have registerd and activated it. I just stated when ever you change your screen resolution it causes you to reactivate CS which I did and it works fine. If I had not activated it why would I complain about reactivating it?

PH

"Uni" wrote in message

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

Tru buying a legal version.

Regards,
Uni

I have a legal copy and it does this. That means Norman is the Pirate!

PH
"Uni" wrote in message

Norman Black wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

I say this is BS. Changing screen resolution makes no difference for me. I do have a legal copy.

The keyword is "legal"

Regards,
Uni – as the piraters whine in newsgroups, rather than contact technical support, since that is not an option for them.

Norman

In this group is lot of assholes called eg. "voivod" who think that only legal copy of CS is free of bugs.

"Photo1v01" wrote:

If I had not activated it why would I
complain about reactivating it?

You could have an inferior crack for activating it.

Let’s state the facts – most of the people pirating Photoshop aren’t exactly the brightest tools in the box.

—
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

"Farlo" wrote in message

[…]
Let’s state the facts – most of the people pirating Photoshop aren’t exactly the brightest tools in the box.

Uh, you mean the sharpest brick in the wall, right?

Nicholas Sherlock wrote:

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

What an amazingly stupid criteria for re-activation!

Can someone else verify that it is true?

—- Paul J. Gans

Uni wrote:

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

Tru buying a legal version.

Regards,
Uni

Are you saying that Photo1v01 is wrong about the reactivation?

Getting accurate information around here from some of you folks more interested in scoring points than in sharing data is very difficult.

—- Paul J. Gans

Norman Black wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting

800×600

to what ever I have to activate my software again.

I say this is BS. Changing screen resolution makes no difference for me. I do have a legal copy.

Norman

Thanks. Out of about five responses so far down this thread yours is the first with actual information.

—- Paul J. Gans

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have the legal version. I have registerd and activated it. I just stated when ever you change your screen resolution it causes you to reactivate CS which I did and it works fine. If I had not activated it why would I complain about reactivating it?

PH

Thanks again. So we have two people reporting and having opposite experiences. And a bunch of folks just talking.

For the folks with actual experience: what operating system are you running. Perhaps that is a difference.

I’ve read a fair amount on the activation scheme (it is on the Adobe web site). As with XP activation it takes a "snapshot" of your hardware and encodes that somehow and makes it part of your activation number. If you drastically change the hardware it can then tell.

However, most activations schemes (and I assume this one) allow you to make some few hardware modifications. For example I suspect that if you changed your CD ROM drive it wouldn’t matter much. But replacing a hard drive MIGHT affect activation.

Determining the limits of this is useful — and not for piracy. I’ve often added a second hard drive to a working machine and I’ve more than once had my primary hard drive fail. As long as reactivation in such cases can be done without hassle, that’s one thing…

Speaking only for myself I find it difficult to understand why changing the screen resolution would matter. That’s a software setting, though it *might* be readable from some video cards and thus become part of the activation code. I don’t know. I’d like to find out since if (as I plan) I change monitors and screen resolution six months down the road, how much hassle will I have.

I gather that Photo1v01 has had the hassle of reactivation, but he’s not had any problem in doing it other than the actual time involved to contact Adobe. Is this correct?

And, of course, it is always possible that Photo1v01 has triggered a bug in the system. If so it should be reported to Adobe so that it can be fixed in the inevitable upgrade pack.

—- Paul J. Gans

Speaking only for myself I find it difficult to understand why changing the screen resolution would matter.

This may be something relating to the particular video card in the system in question–I’d be interested if the people who reported this problem (and those who didn’t) would post details about their video hardware.

I’ve got nothing but bad feelings about hardware activation. I ran into a problem with a client’s computer recently where I was installing Windows XP, and (as often happens with Windows) got a blue screen of death partway through the install. After rebooting and reinstalling (which worked the second time), the XP install claimed that it could not be activated because it had already been activated–this despite the fact that it was a brand-new installer CD from an unopened package. The crash during install did something that screwed up the activation.

Another hour of my life, wasted on the phone with microsoft straightening it out. If Photoshop does in fact have problems with screen resolution changes (I don’t know, and I won’t know–I will not buy Photoshop again for as long as it requires activation), then I may end up wasting another hour or two of my life dealing with it at some client’s site.

Life’s too short for this. From now on, I think I’m adding activation cracks to my standard library of tools I bring on-site with me. I really don’t have time for software activation problems, no matter whos software we’re talking about.

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"jjs" wrote:

Uh, you mean the sharpest brick in the wall, right?

Bricks imply sturdiness. If they had any spine, they wouldn’t be pirating software.

—
Farlo, the Urban Fey Dragon

I just did 200 screen shots for a client switching resolutions probably a dozen times during this process (did it over several days) and not once did Photoshop CS ask me to reactivate.

Something is wrong with the guys video card, video drivers, computer or he doesn’t know what he is talking about. No offense intended.

Jerry

"Paul J Gans" wrote in message

Nicholas Sherlock wrote:

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

What an amazingly stupid criteria for re-activation!

Can someone else verify that it is true?

—- Paul J. Gans

nospam wrote:

I just did 200 screen shots for a client switching resolutions probably a dozen times during this process (did it over several days) and not once did Photoshop CS ask me to reactivate.

Something is wrong with the guys video card, video drivers, computer or he doesn’t know what he is talking about. No offense intended.

Jerry

OK! That’s two folks who say they have switched resolution without any problems.

Perhaps a few more will chime in.

I agree that the problem could be with the video card, the drivers, or whatever. The card/driver/operating system interaction is so complex now that I could believe most anything.

—- Paul J. Gans

"Paul J Gans" wrote in message

Nicholas Sherlock wrote:

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have activated my CS. Now every time I change my screen setting 800×600 to what ever I have to activate my software again.

What an amazingly stupid criteria for re-activation!

Can someone else verify that it is true?

—- Paul J. Gans

Photo1v01 wrote:

I have a legal copy and it does this. That means Norman is the Pirate!

Why? Just because he can switch screen res without an activation request?! I hope Norman sees this and sues your hiney for libel.

If I were the sort of person to cast apersions I might even go so far as to suggest that *your’re* less than squeaky…