If you upgraded your computer’s hardware, replaced a hard drive, upgraded your operating system, or reformatted your computer before deactivating your software, you may have disrupted the activation connection.
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Activation limit reached for Adobe CS Photoshop 5.1
How can I activate the product? The old laptop has been damaged. I cannot deactivate the program
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You need to have Adobe Help you try using their chat support. Users here can not help you we do not work for Adobe so we can not access their activation data base to change it to deactivate your damaged laptop.
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https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/activation-deactivation-help.html
If you upgraded your computer’s hardware, replaced a hard drive, upgraded your operating system, or reformatted your computer before deactivating your software, you may have disrupted the activation connection.
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When you contact customer care specifically ask them to "deactivate my license/activation code".
They wont be able to do anything else besides that and if you are not specific they will try to push you to CC subscription.