Upgraded my motherboard and can't activate Photoshop CS6

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April 10, 2026
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I recently upgraded my motherboard and now I can’t use my copy of Photoshop CS6 because it says my serial number is already in use by the maximum allowed computers.

Those computers no longer exist, so I have no way to deactivate the licences on them.

I tried to deactivate devices in my account settings, but that didn’t help.

Is there any other way to deactivate the old installs?

Thanks

Correct answer Ged_Traynor

@Faulkin if you can’t deactivate it, you’re out of luck I’m afraid, Adobe no longer reset activation counts

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ExUSA

Legend

Restore the old working hardware, deactivate CS6, and then do your upgrade. Or realize that CS6 is old and unsupported and move to either a subscription or to something else. Affinity is now free, for example.