Overview¶

There are three licensing methodologies: Named user licensing (NUL–recommended), serialized with a physical license key, and feature restricted licensing. For a brief overview, see License types.

Terminology

• Licensing: Acrobat installs require one of the license types. Licenses must be activated.
• Serialization: Licensing with a serial key (license key). This legacy method is gradually being replaced by named user licensing.
• Named user licensing (NUL): Licensing with an Adobe ID, federated ID, or enterprise ID. The preferred method as it supports user and group management via the Admin Console.
• Feature restricted licensing: A new licensing method which is used in environments where users cannot validate online.
• Activation: Activation validates your software license to prevent fraud and abuse of Adobe products and services.
• Provisioning: Same as “activation” and “licensing”. When an active/valid license is detected, the product is provisioned with the appropriate features (e.g. certain services).
• Registration: Registration is a way to prove product ownership. It remains relevant in serialized settings, but in NUL settings, user sign in is a defacto registration.
• Deactivation: Deactivation disconnects an application from a valid user license.

Have several copies of Acrobat Professional that were purchased previously, installed and activated. However there is no documentation of the serial numbers, the Adobe online account ID or any details for these.

Need to move the licenses to upgraded Windows 7 PCs (current ones are on Windows XP that are about to be decommissioned).

Requirement is to ONLY move the licenses to the upgraded workstations. NOT to have multiple instances of the same license running concurrently.

Note: Adobe support is not very helpful since there isn't much information about the licenses.

DO NOT want to use 3rd party tools to extract serial numbers.

Is there a way to get this information from the registry or any other location so that the licenses can be transferred without breaking the activation? If so how?

1 Answer

This is what I was able to find after a few Google searches

STEP 1: Find Adobe Key (Encrypted)

Use one of the methods below.

M1. Using SQLite DB:The activation information is stored at the location below:

C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAdobeAdobe PCDcachecache.db

This is a SQLite DB which can be opened with SQLite Database Browser.Using SQLite Database Browser, you need to look for the key SN

M2. Using the registry:

For 32 bit OS :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAdobeAdobe Acrobat10.0RegistrationSERIAL

Jul 29, 2013 - Design of Parallel IN - Serial OUT Shift Register using Behavior. The input of PISO to 8 inputs (0 to 7), where the code that I must modify. Parallel input serial output shift registers. May 1, 2014 - Once the register is clocked, all the data at the D inputs appear at the corresponding Q. VHDL Code for Serial In Parallel Out Shift Register. Feb 22, 1999 - source code file- with entity and architecture. Implements a simple 2->1 multiplexer with selection input. Implements a simple parallel-serial converter- with load and shift left. Implements a simple loadable register in VHDL. DOUT: out std_logic_vector(7 downto 0); -- system outputs.

For 64 bit OS :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeAdobeAdobe Acrobat10.0RegistrationSERIAL

Replace 10.0 with version of Adobe being used

STEP 2: Decrypt Key

Use one of the methods below.

M1: JavaScript code to decrypt Serial:

M2: PowerShell Code to decrypt Serial

M3: VB Code to decrypt Serial:

M4: Java Code to decrypt Serial:

STEP 3: Download and Install the software with same serial

Download same version of the Adobe software that was install previously from the official Adobe repository using the links below:

Adobe 7 - Download for Adobe Professional and Standard version 7 and Serial key available here - The serial numbers provided as a part of the download may only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products. (Can download by using ANY Adobe ID to sign in - Not just the Adobe ID it was purchased under)

References:

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