I have master suite cs6 on my old laptop trying to move it to a new laptop. I have lost the serial number. I installed the master suite cs6 almost 5 years ago and I forgot to register the software, is there anyway to retrieve the serial number for the master suite? I can bring up all the programs from the old laptop but can't move them to new one.
As Bob says Belarc Advisor will find all your old serial numbers and it is free. There is an equivalent for Macs but that costs $20. I came across a different method a while back that allows for a serial to be retrieved from a folder on your hard disk. I am not using any of the old products now , just Creative Cloud, where this method does reveal a serial number-at least under Windows 10, but can't test the older products
It works this way. You need to navigate to
'C:\ProgramData\regid.1986-12.com.adobe'
This is a hidden folder and so you need to first go into Control Panel and change your 'folder options' to make them visible. Once visible you should see files inside with *.swidtag extensions-these are standard xml files. Copy these files to the desktop and change the suffix to *.txt and open in a text editor. Towards the bottom you should see a field
<swid:serial_number>Your Serial Number here</swid:serial_number>
This is pretty academic for Creative Cloud as it uses a subscription model, yet a serial is still used behind the scenes. The thing I read said it also worked for CS3 and onwards so it may work with CS6, but no guarantees.
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