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Activation problem

schipper
Registered: Dec 3 2008
Posts: 3

Last week the hard drive on my laptop bit the dust, and had to be replaced. I had considerable trouble reinstalling Acrobat Professional 8.0. The program installed itself without difficulty, and popped up the expected activation window. Plus it allowed activation. So far so good.

This morning I tried to print a document as a pdf file (a process I use very frequently for storing particular kinds of documents), and was told to activate the software. Again.

And when I tried to do so using the Activate/Deactivate links on the Help tab I found both of them greyed out. So I am now unable to active my installation.

What should I do? Do I have to uninstall, then reinstall? Then activate?

Any help will stop my grey hairs from turning white!!

Bill

Bill Schipper
English Dept
Memorial University
St. John's, NL, Canada

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
If you have installed some other Adobe products like CS2, CS3 or CS4 suite it can happen, that you have to repeat the activation of programs that have been installed before.
I've watched this problem when installing Illustrator or Photoshop after Acrobat.

If you're not able to de-/activiate Acrobat again, you should try a repair installation, worked for me!

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penandme
Registered: Jan 22 2008
Posts: 6
What is the process of a "Repair Reinstall? What prcedure do you need to take to make it happen. I have had a similar problem to Schipper's.
Thx