How do I find which serial I used for Photoshop CS5 on my computer?

Question

I want to move my Photoshop CS5 installation to a new computer.
Unfortunately, I lost the paper with the cd-key.

Is there a way to recover the serial from my local installation?

Solution 1

If you logged in with your Adobe account when you first used the serial number, I believe it gets tied to your Adobe account and is retrievable through their website.

Solution 2

Use a regedit reader specialized for license keys,for example :

LicenseCrawler (free, portable)

or

The Magical Jellybean Keyfinder (has free version)

Solution 3

Go into system information under help in the photoshop application. A long list of things will come up stuff like your plug-ins ect.

Among that will be the serial number without the dashes - just put a dash every four numbers and that is your serial number that you used to install the program.

Solution 4

The serial number in system info may get you only 5 blocks of 4 digits where the complete serial number may be 6 blocks of 4 digits. Belarc Advisor gets the comlete 6 blocks.

Solution 5

A Mac option that worked for (my old but highly functional) Photoshop CS 5.1, just opened a terminal and ran

find /Library/Application\ Support/ -name 'regid*.swidtag' -exec cat {} \;

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Comments

[terdon]

Perhaps Help=>About?

[Gnoupi]

@terdon - unfortunately, not.

[Rain]

If you logged in with your Adobe account when you first used the serial number, I believe it gets tied to your Adobe account and is retrievable through their website. (I'm not entirely sure though, this is how it worked for older CS versions at least).

[Gnoupi]

@Rain - indeed, I can find it there.

[Phillip R.]

This program can help also. belarc.com/free_download.html

[lucidbrot]

LicenseCrawler did not find it in my case, but that Belarc Advisor worked

[TylerH]

This only shows 5 blocks of 4 digits; Adobe CS5 uses a serial number with 6 blocks of 4 digits.