I am correct. Put it on 40 devices if you want to. You can only be logged into two copies of the program at any one time, and you can't be using both at the same time. Overwhelming number of users might put it on a laptop, and a desktop- or they might put it on a computer, that computer dies, and they put it on a new computer. Next: users will have some old computer die on them- it happens "I paid good money for this computer 10 years ago" but they didn't get a chance to log out of the program before the computer died. That used up one of the activations, of two activations. They allready installed it on the computer they bought at the local computer shop- a used computer to begin with, but they "Paid good money" for it, so it must be a good computer. They install their version of PSE- often 10 years old- log into it, and that just used up their second login / activation. Welp they went to the local computer store again to "get the wife her own rig" (Guys tend to call computers rigs- like it's a truck) download and install PSE 10, go to login in and get the "Activation limit reached" message. You have used up your two activations / authoirzations-- the computer that died (the one you didn't log out of PSE) and the one you first reinstalled PSE 10 onto. Adobe came to their senses last June: Activation resets on old versions will no longer be done. If I ever go to uninstall PSE, ever, for what ever reason- I allways log out of PSE first, then uninstall. I have versions 10, 14,16,18,19, 20,21,22,23,24,and25 all installed, and have installed and unistalled each multiple times-- I've never had any "Activation limit reached " messages ever. People do not often read, or fully understand the documentation about loggin out of the program- and that's a "end user" problem, not an Adobe problem.
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