Installed Lightoom on new computer. Now message showing that says I have X amount of days to deactivate on another computer in order to use this product.

Forum|Forum|1 month ago
February 17, 2026
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Don’t have access to old computer. Any work around with this. Its Lightroom 6.

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

Don’t shoot the messenger, but Lightroom 6 is a ten year old product and no longer supported by Adobe. It used to be that you could log into your account and deactivate the old computer. When I do that, I no longer see any reference to the old Lightroom versions I had a perpetual license for.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Anything you read about De-activation or re-activation (with apps like CS5 CS6) do not apply to Lightroom 6. Lr6 is a totally separate ‘beast’. And you will not find any information or downloads in your account.

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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

AxelMatt

Community Expert

@carlPhotos In addition to @Rob_Cullen ‘s answer: If you have reached your activation limit and you don't have any chance to deactivate an older installation you're out of luck. Adobe has stopped the support of CS 6 products and the resetting of the activation counter isn't possible anymore.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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