Comments on: Disable Adobe CS4 Activation Check

By: isla

isla — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:59:28 +0000

If Vista says ” Cannot create the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.” Simply cut and paste the “hosts” file in a new folder to crack it. Then open it as notepad, paste the crack sequence f0und at the top. Close it. Paste it back to the “etc” folder.There!Enjoy.

By: gmpco

gmpco — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:57:01 +0000

does this works for CS5 also?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:55:54 +0000

Hi i have cs4 and windows 7 I have tried everything mentioned here and am still getting the rego page come up when i try a new serial from the keygen I get your copy has expired. can anyone help please.

By: vj

vj — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:40:32 +0000

i ve tried alomst everything but it still asks for a serial..

i ve windows 7 n i did all.. somewhwere i read tht u have to add this # at the beginning of each statement.. even tried tht… did not work

m just so tired .. help me plzzz

By: Niko

Niko — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:33:31 +0000

Thank you so much for this post and also to CJ who gave detailed instructions for a win 7 user helped a lot also this WORKS for CS5 aswell so

THANKS !

By: jon

jon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:14:07 +0000

i know on windows 7, you can also go into system and security…windows firewall…advanced settings…inbound rules and then block the adobe products websites.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:05:49 +0000

If you get an “Access denied” message when trying to save the changes, open notepad by right-clicking and choosing “Run as administrator”, then click File>open and browse to the location of the hosts file and open it.

By: Prophit5

Prophit5 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:22:49 +0000

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium edition. I tried editing the “host” file as explained above. It doesn’t prevent the activation screen from appearing. I have a licensed copy but my old computer died twice with 2 different harddrives and now Adobe thinks i have it installed on 3 machines, when in fact I am only trying to run it on one machine. I don’t have the old AdobeID used to originally purchase the software so this seems to be my only option. Please help!

By: Arun Vishnu

Arun Vishnu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:16:21 +0000

@cj
man .. Thx for that detailed comment

By: cj

cj — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:16:39 +0000

Disconnect from the internet and close any CS4 programs you have open.

if you are attempting to execute this on a windows 7 machine, you may need to provide administrator priv. a few times. You may work around this by copying the hosts file to your desktop, opening it with notepad, editing, saving it as file type “all files.” It may still save as a .txt, but I’ll get to that in a moment.

Copy it back to the \drivers\etc folder and allow with administrator privileges. If the other hosts file remains, delete it and follow these steps

Then, bring down the Organize tab, navigate to

folder and search options > view
and uncheck “hide extensions for known file types”

rename hosts.txt as hosts
no file extension.

Again, provide administrator privileges to complete this action.