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I hate to make a complaint in my first post especially against such a terrific program as Adobe CS — but PLEASE adobe could you change the Activation mechanism so you don’t have to re-activate after the following conditions. (I’m 100% against Piracy so not against activation in principle provided it’s implemented in a reasonable sensible manner rather than in "paranoid" mode).
1) I regularly take a "System Dump" or Image copy of my Windows partition using a program like DRIVE IMAGE or NORTON GHOST — in case of a crash or whatever. This means I can restore my Windows partition very quickly in case I’ve had a computer crash, messed something up, got some "unremoveable" Spyware on my system etc etc. Now If I do a restore to the SAME computer Adobe CS prompts you for re-activation — not even a warning — you have to activate then and there — no good if you are out in the field with no Internet connection and out of Landline / Mobile phone range either — This cost me a WEEK of not being able to use the product –and nearly cost me the assignment — fortunately I had a backup version of Photoshop 7.
2) Moving THE SAME HARDWARE around on the same computer also wants re-activation. I wanted to swap the position of DVD drives on the motherboard (IDE 0 / 1 ) and change from Master to Slave for better performance. I really shouldn’t have to reactivate for these type of reasons — It’s THE SAME HARDWARE ON THE SAME MACHINE.
In both the above cases WINDOWS itself didn’t require re-activation.
I’d like to suggest that ADOBE’s reactivation procedure should work similarly to Windows — and especially after a system restore even if they can’t change the activation procedure should at least allow the program to continue for a limited time before stopping. If you are a Pro photographer out in the field you can’t always be on the Net or have access to a phone — and Laptops DO crash.
Thanks
1) I regularly take a "System Dump" or Image copy of my Windows partition using a program like DRIVE IMAGE or NORTON GHOST — in case of a crash or whatever. This means I can restore my Windows partition very quickly in case I’ve had a computer crash, messed something up, got some "unremoveable" Spyware on my system etc etc. Now If I do a restore to the SAME computer Adobe CS prompts you for re-activation — not even a warning — you have to activate then and there — no good if you are out in the field with no Internet connection and out of Landline / Mobile phone range either — This cost me a WEEK of not being able to use the product –and nearly cost me the assignment — fortunately I had a backup version of Photoshop 7.
2) Moving THE SAME HARDWARE around on the same computer also wants re-activation. I wanted to swap the position of DVD drives on the motherboard (IDE 0 / 1 ) and change from Master to Slave for better performance. I really shouldn’t have to reactivate for these type of reasons — It’s THE SAME HARDWARE ON THE SAME MACHINE.
In both the above cases WINDOWS itself didn’t require re-activation.
I’d like to suggest that ADOBE’s reactivation procedure should work similarly to Windows — and especially after a system restore even if they can’t change the activation procedure should at least allow the program to continue for a limited time before stopping. If you are a Pro photographer out in the field you can’t always be on the Net or have access to a phone — and Laptops DO crash.
Thanks
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