Moving Photoshop [Elements] 13 Program to a Newer Laptop

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January 12, 2024
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Is it possible to move the Photoshop [Elements] 13 program from a older laptop to a newer one?

("Elements" added by moderator as per later post)

Windows

Correct answer Greg_S.

Yes, you can install Elements 13 on a new computer but you may have to deactivate the license on the old machine in order to activate it on the new one. (This is not the case if you are certain that you have only installed the program on one computer and one OS before. But if you have upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, Elements will probably treat that as installing on 2 computers which is the limit for activations.)

A more complicated issue is moving the Organizer's catalog from one machine to the other. See this article for details.

Greg_S.

Correct answer

Community Expert

Yes, you can install Elements 13 on a new computer but you may have to deactivate the license on the old machine in order to activate it on the new one. (This is not the case if you are certain that you have only installed the program on one computer and one OS before. But if you have upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, Elements will probably treat that as installing on 2 computers which is the limit for activations.)

A more complicated issue is moving the Organizer's catalog from one machine to the other. See this article for details.

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george_4252

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Greg: I have similar situation: I want to use photoshop E13 on a new pc, but the disk drive in the old PC with E13 died, and was unrecoverable. Therefore, I cannot "unregister" E13 on the old PC. How do we update the Adobe database that holds my serial number & old PC's ID?

Peru Bob

Community Expert

@george_4252

Deactivation is now only available if you have access to the application on the computer to be deactivated.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@davidw27022169 do you mean Photoshop Elements 13, you can't move apps from one PC to another, you need to install them, if indeed you do mean Photoshop Elements 13 you can download it from here

https://prodesigntools.com/photoshop-elements-13-direct-download-links-premiere.html

You will of course need your serial number to activate it