My Trial is limited to 7 days, Why?

I can see advantages in a longer trial, but a shorter one of 7 days is plain idiotic. For a start business people will generally have weekends off, so its five days for them. Hobbyists will probably get the full 7 days, but they generally start from ground zero and if anything require more time than the existing professionals to evaluate the software. I bet if you publicize the trial in some territories is 7 days there will be a sharp decline in uptake as most people know before starting to use Photoshop that it has a steep learning curve and what is 7 days good for, other than the absolute basics. Most newbies struggle for the first few days as they don't understand configuration, color management or have hardware issues with things like graphics cards . You only need to look at this forum to see evidence of that, so many won't even start using the software properly until day 2 or 3. People aren't stupid and will take advantage of the no quibble money back guarantee and get a three week trial that way. There must be an administrative cost to Adobe for that? I imagine less than 5% of trial users know about doing that so the cost is probably modest, but what if 90% of trial users did it? I really can't see the rationale behind this at all, but can see that it may make some people look at the cracks that exist and drive potential customers in the direction of the pirates. I would suggest Adobe thinks again on this one

Terri

Hi Kerry,

as the others have said there is no way to reset the number of days left in your trial , but there are a few alternatives

1) Load Photoshop onto a different computer

2) Wait a few months and generally Adobe will email you asking you to try it again with a reset copy

3) And this is what I'd suggest. Use the trial till it expires, then subscribe to the Photographic plan which will require a $10 payment. You can then use the program normally, but providing you cancel the subscription within 14 days of taking it out, Adobe will fully refund your $10. This will give you 20 days including the 6 you have on the trial left. This sounds like a trick but Adobe are aware some people need additional time and are happy to allow you to do things this way. In fact in the past you had up to 28 days to cancel thereby giving you 2 months to evaluate the software. Its not ideal, but its a way, 6 days isn't really sufficient to decide in my opinion.

Terri

This has been happening a LOT lately. I teach students online and they use the "Try" versions. Many of them are reporting that they received 7-day trials. This is terrible. You contact Adobe support and they tell you the trial is 30-days, but that's not the case. Today my students made new Adobe accounts then downloaded and installed Adobe CC then downloaded and installed InDesign and InDesign says it is only good for 7 days. They have never installed or used any Adobe applications prior to today.

It starts from the day you downloaded it.  When was it downloaded?