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