Activate Ultra2 (Serious Magic) [CS1, CS2 & CS3 are dead]

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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

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

Excellent thank you for the update Grandecreatura!

Jeffrey_A_Wright

Community Manager

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

Participant

Good morning, Jeff. I had my old Windows XP workstation laptop containing both Ultra2 and DVRack HDV die yesterday. ... still looking for the backup (which I know exists, though I'd likely still need to reinstall software even with a data restore). I was very encouraged to find your post, only to find on following the link at the download site that I get a 404 error, as the file no longer seems to be there. I still rely on DVRack HDV to work with an older JVC Professional HD camera and have thousands of dollars in Serious Magic software (even have a still-shrinkwrapped box of the post-acquisition VC3). Is there any chance someone at Adobe still has that zip file? Believe it or not, I haven't had to reinstall any of this in well over a decade and I still use this old software routinely. I'll guard that file with my life if I manage to get my hands on it. Thanks in advance for any help you might provide!