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Just wanted to ask if it was legal to install Adobe Design Suite on my friends PC? I have the student edition of Adobe Design Suite CS4 and im not sure how many times i am allowed to install it for myself let alone for another person. She is also a valid student and holds a student card. Obviously i didn't pay a lot of money for it to run out of licence uses so i don't want to go over my own amount if i do a reboot for instance. The Microsoft office student edition only has 3 licence uses as an example.
Any replies are already well thanked.
James
You should be able to *deactivate* the product BEFORE you reformat your hard drive. After the reformat, reinstall of the OS etc, you should be able to reinstall the Suite and *reactivate* it.
My understanding is that for CS3, there are a maximum number of activate/deactivate cycles (which, for the record I feel is ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE, given that we have paid for the software).
Also, if there is a significant change in the hardware configuration, you might not be able to reactivate without a ca
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Oh, I agree with you. I am in the same boat with not knowing how many I have remaining. Updating motherboards, hard drives, videocards and such I just never kept count.
I did not install CS4 back on my main machine. I replaced a motherboard that was dying and found out it took my hard drive with it. I was lucky to get the board to post and deactivated CS4. Otherwise I would be calling in.
So here sits my main rig. I am waiting on windows 7 to arrive at my door step this month. I did not want to deactivate and reactivate CS4. My backup machine works fine with PS CS4 thank goodness. I can understand why we have to deactivate and reactivate and that is just part of life. But like you said we paid for the software and there should not be a cycle limit.
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dec9 wrote:
The 20 activate/deactivate cycle is just plain wrong. What in the world are the shirts thinking?
I have difficulties following that reasoning - how many times does one install the same software on the same computer (or a replacement, if the original one fails) ?
Ok, hardware can fail, so a 2nd installation is quite reasonable. Ok, hardware can fail again, so a 3rd install still seems reasonable.
But then, are we talking about a software release one is going to use for a lifetime? Especially if it comes to student versions; most people don't stay students for the rest of their lives...
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Look at it as a cycle point of view (activate/deactivate). Not as 20 of each.
If you do the following by seperate replacement or upgrade: Update processor, new hard drive, new motherboard, new video card and reinstall windows that is 10 cycles used up right there. Then if you have a laptop or another compter....... it adds up pretty quick.
pwillener wrote:
dec9 wrote:
The 20 activate/deactivate cycle is just plain wrong. What in the world are the shirts thinking?
I have difficulties following that reasoning - how many times does one install the same software on the same computer (or a replacement, if the original one fails) ?
Ok, hardware can fail, so a 2nd installation is quite reasonable. Ok, hardware can fail again, so a 3rd install still seems reasonable.
But then, are we talking about a software release one is going to use for a lifetime? Especially if it comes to student versions; most people don't stay students for the rest of their lives...
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Your'e wrong. It doesn't work that way.
Only the activations are counted towards the 20 you're allowed before it has to be reset (or manually extended).