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Retreiving Serial Number Acrobat 8 and 7 Std and Pro

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2009-02-18 06:38:19
AfrenPLC
Registered: Feb 18 2009
Posts: 3
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HI

We have a lot of older machines with Adobe installed verions 7 & 8 incuding std and pro editions.

Is there a way to retrieve the serial number form the installation so we can move it to another PC as our media doesnt have which machine has it installed etc.

thanks in advance

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0, Windows
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2009-02-18 09:44:47
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George_Johnson
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Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1875
You can check the Windows registry to get the serial number. For example:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\Registration\SERIAL


George
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2009-04-09 11:33:47
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mikesamo
Registered: Apr 9 2009
Posts: 1
this is not the retail you have to do a convertion to get de retail serial

1.go to your old

2.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\Registration\SERIAL

3.get the number


4.the only way to do this convertion you have to install same version of adobe on the computer with a valid serial number. do no activated it

5.after that go to


6.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\Registration\SERIAL
7. replace with the number you get from step 3
8. open adobe acrobat
9. help > Activation > by phone
10. the software will now show your own retail serial from your old installation

if anyone know other to get the serial let me know please
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