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Mx5 kris
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I purchased photoshop some time ago, but now I have a new hard-drive, because the other one falled, and I have lost the disk. I have all the serial code, the recipt, the email, all of that, but where I got it the date to return and ask for a new copy is expired. If I download a demo or something and own the code, can I just enter it and it will activate, or what?

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Why not contact Adobe directly?
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Mx5 kris
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I did not buy it from Adobe(r).

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Surely if you gave them all your original purchase information
they may give you a new disk.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2004 15:52
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The demo versions do not ask for serial numbers, so no, this won't work. Go back to your original supplier.

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Dave J
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I am astonished that people can even lose CD's, I have a CD rack and a shelf of boxes, all my CD's are either in the rack or in its box, there's no possible way of losing any of them. I mean, unless you loan it to a friend (why not just burn them a copy, instead?), it's unlikely that the CD will ever leave the house anyway. Especially with products that are as expensive as Adobe, I'd never leave something like that lying around.


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Ian T
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If you've actually got all that info, simply contact the vendor.

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indi
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2004 17:20
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Ive had adobe since 3.0 and I still have the original disk

contact your original vendor like rich said.

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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2004 18:42
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I have the original 12 disks of Windows 3.1!!


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indi
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theres actually an extra one adobe type manager or something.

that also came bundled with my first copy.

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Mx5 kris
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ok. Thanks, I fixed the problem. I moved recently, and it was in a box marked "Adobe cds".
Quote: "I have the original 12 disks of Windows 3.1!!"

you are insane, right? That was some crappy software, good thing we have "bug free" windows xp.

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Phaelax
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crappy software?! I had Win 3.11, and I don't recall any blue screens of death or random crashes. It was basically a graphical DOS, which is why it's so much more stable than all those 32-bit OS's.

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Mx5 kris
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It couldn run unreal tournement, or else I would be on it in a second!

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Shadow Robert
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Your talking about Photoshop 8.0 CS aren't you?
Christ I've had serious problems with that version, the problem is Adobe tried to instil a version of the software that only accepted certain keys. A little hindsight could've been needed to the fact that they released it late in the year, and the authentication is based on the year you do it.

Now you can just clock back your date to 2003 and install it with the code. It will install and run fine, problem is when you boot it up once turing the date back to 2004 it'll once again complain.

You have to get the Authentication Patch from the Adobe site, (you'll need to log-in using your premium account) and install that while you've turned your clock back to authenticate it in the right year.
After that things should be fine.

I hope they sort a better system out for 9


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David T
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Quote: "I have the original 12 disks of Windows 3.1!! "


I have the original 16 or so MS Dos 5.0 ones, and installed it on a laptop earlier this year. All so I could play transport tycoon

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I don't lose disks of anything over £10

Hmmm original disks....I lost my syndicate disk (not an original ) but I have the original Terracraft floppies and the Astrofire floppies, can't remember much else...


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Shadow Robert
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Quote: " have the original 16 or so MS Dos 5.0 ones, and installed it on a laptop earlier this year. All so I could play transport tycoon"


I still have MS-DOS 5.0 on 5.25" Disks. Comes on 5 of them
[post.edit] you want something which was hard to keep ahold of without problems... I have OS/2 Warp the original Floppy Disk version here, the box weights almost as much as my brother because it comes on 72 Disks. (That wasn't fun installing the first time!)


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Quote: "transport tycoon "


Have to love that game. Stil lhave my Transport Tycoon cd as well from a good 7 years or so back.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/cslocomotion/index.html?q=locomotion

This might be of some interest to you(Who cares about graphics when you have a great game like this).



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you people wanna talk about stable OS's, then go look up GEOS - Graphical Environment Operating System, and it was a graphical OS for the commodore 64 and 128. Runs really well, can even surf some version of the net


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any heard of linux or the super stable unix

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Quote: "any heard of linux or the super stable unix"


Unix, AmigaOS & RiscOS.. best operating system bases available.

Linux might have it's roots with Unix, but certainly in this case the apples have fallen far from the tree.


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It was exciting upgrading to dos 6.2 all those years ago...


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Mx5 kris
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I have a question to mods- Can you delete the threads before the os ones and rename it The OS thread?

I am a person with the intelligence of a google bot.
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Dave J
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No.


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Mx5 kris
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note: sarcasm intended.

I am a person with the intelligence of a google bot.
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Amiga Workbench!
I got PS8, never had any problems. (though you cant open an image of a scanned $20 bill or higher)

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mac os 10.3.5 is really stable, bsd unix variant.

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