Elements 2021 - computer died

For anyone else reading this... when you buy any program via download, please put your account information in a text file (ID and password and serial number) and then copy that text file and your downloaded program file(s) to AT LEAST one external drive... a USB flash drive is good insurance
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Hardware crashes or virus infections or simple software problems happen, so you should buy AND USE software to make a full backup of your hard drive to an external USB hard drive... plus, making step-by-step backups during a new setup or major program addition makes it easy to go back a step if something doesn't work... I have had to do this once when a program install didn't work properly (a different program, not Adobe) and I had to do a restore due to my drive being SO messed up that I couldn't even uninstall the bad program
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This backup and then restore is, of course, only to the same computer with a new drive (or the same drive as long as you don't mind writing over everything) since doing a restore to a new computer requires extra steps due to Windows and many programs having activation information that is keyed to your hardware (which is why Windows will force you to RE-Activate if you change very much hardware)
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There are several backup and restore programs available
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The product I bought and use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
Note that I get NO benefit if you buy the program, I only use it and like what it does
Version 3+ allows restoring to a larger drive and expanding the partition to fit
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Image runs off of a bootable CD or USB Flash Drive via Linux (the Zip you download includes a program to make the CD or USB, the program uses less than 1Gig) and it reads EVERYTHING on the drive, even the hidden registration information, so everything is restored when needed... and you may not only restore the image over a messed up install, you may restore to a brand new drive in case of a hardware crash, and not have to re-install anything
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I do a backup a couple times a year to a second internal drive... the backup of my C drive is 'about' 45Gig in one file... depending on the space used on your C drive you should be able to do a backup to a USB flash drive that has enough capacity... 128Gig flash drives don't cost a lot
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I have actually done this restore one time... when a program I bought had a faulty installer that totally mangled the Windows registry... I had done a restore before installing the bad program so I did not lose anything when I had to do the restore

If you registered it with Adobe, you can get that here:

https://account.adobe.com/products