how do i find adobe cs5 serial number on cd

If you purchased Adobe CS3 (one of the suites) and have the CDs - you should have the serial number too. Even if I had - I would end up at the same point.

I have not heard of the 'known issue' that Microsoft Security Essentials would uninstall an application like Adobe CS3 and remove its serial number from the system completely. The serial number upkeep, I am afraid, was totally in your The installation files could be used with MANY different serial numbers and would never know the difference nor care. The serial number is NOT stored on the CD - it is just the installation files. Now - you said you purchased the disc (CDs) for Adobe CS3 - the serial number would have been inside all of that packaging. Products you owned and subscribed to a basic email 'newsletter' centered around what you owned. You just had an account and had told them what Unless you had some account you could log into in the past and see all of you current licenses - that's all it was.

Your 'subscription' to Adobe was probably nothing more than your email stored with them. then that option is lost to you (unless you happen to keep system images/backups you could restore to - of course if you did that, you probably would have just If you have recuilt the system or overwritten where the product key would be in the registry/etc. *maybe* something like Belarc Advisor (which you are welcome to install, run and check the results of now) would have revealed the serial number of the installed application(s) - including CS3. Maybe before having re-installed the application, etc. Unfortunately you most likely are out of luck.

How do i find adobe cs5 serial number on cd