Moving Dreamweaver CS3 to new computer [CS3 is DEAD]

[defaultoc1c8ppbgpqm]

I've seen other posts on this but do not see an answer for me yet. I had Dreamweaver CS3 on anothe Windows 10 laptop, just got a new laptop with Windows 10. I instsalled Dreamweaver CS3 from original disk, but serial number not working. 

I see no way to "deactivate" the dreamweaver on the original computer. There is no "deactivate" option under the "Help" menu. 

Any ideas ? Thanks

[Nancy OShea]

Hi @defaultoc1c8ppbgpqm,

I'm afraid CS3 from 2007 is officially dead.  The aged out activation servers failed and were taken offline many years ago.  Even with a valid serial number, there is no possible way to activate CS3 now, sorry.  

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html

Perhaps more importantly, CS3 is very outdated.  The web has changed a lot in 14 years.  You really do need modern software.  If not Dreamweaver CC 2021, then some other editor that understands current code standards -- HTML5, CSS3, etc...

CODE EDITORS:
-- Adobe Dreamweaver CC - https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
-- Atom (free) - https://atom.io/
-- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
-- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
-- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
-- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
-- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
-- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/

Hope that helps.

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