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Anonymous
February 15, 2014
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Activate Ultra2 (Serious Magic) [CS1, CS2 & CS3 are dead]

  • February 15, 2014
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Many years ago I purchase the program UltraKey (from Serious Magic). It was very expensive at that time (around € 750,-).

 

I tried to install this program now om my Windows-7 computer, but it failed to activate.

 

In 2009 I received a solution to activate the program bij SMActivate.exe. I followed this solution, even update the program to ULTRA2, but activation is not possible.

 

When I run SMActivate.exe, I see only "Activate the following Serious Magic Applications: ULTRA 1.0 PAL"

Click OK, and then "Succesfully activated selected programs"

 

When I run Ultra, or Ultra2, i see that I have NO activation at all, and only 7 days left before the program stops.

 

Is there anyone who can help me?

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    This thread is more than 6 years old.  Ultra has been gone for 12 years.  And CS3 and earlier software are all discontinued which means that even if you could install, there is no possible way to activate because the activation servers shut down years ago.  Sorry but this is a dead end. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Ultra

     

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    Anonymous
    February 16, 2014

    Many thanks for the links. I followed these steps, and I managed to install Ultra 2 on Windows 7.

    The program is activated, and after placing a missing pcleUtil.dll the program works fine!

    Jeffrey_A_Wright
    Community Manager
    Jeffrey_A_WrightCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 17, 2014

    Excellent thank you for the update Grandecreatura!

    Jeffrey_A_Wright
    Community Manager
    Jeffrey_A_WrightCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 15, 2014

    Grandecreatura please see Legacy Serious Magic product activation - http://helpx.adobe.com/legacy/kb/legacy-serious-magic-product-activation.html for information on how to activate Ultra 2. 

    Please be aware these steps have not been tested in Windows 7.

    PLegor
    PLegor
    Participant
    January 10, 2020

    Jeff, here is the original post with the download link: https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/detail.jsp?ftpID=4246

    Thanks again,

    P

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    abiecom
    Participant
    April 13, 2020

    I can't find the file. When I go to that link, it tells me the file is not there. Help???

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 15, 2014

    did you use this activation tool, http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4246

    if so, see if there's something in this forum that helps you, http://forums.adobe.com/message/5571730

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