How to Find Adobe CS5/CS6 Serial Number/Product Key

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A lot of people tend to lose the product key after the first installation. However, if you need to reinstall the product for any reason, you will need the key again. If you wish to recover the Adobe CS 5/CS 6 serial number, please continue reading. Below is a few methods you can follow to find the serial number of any Adobe product.

Method 1 – Using Free Key Finder Tools

The good news is there are plenty of Key Finder Tools for Adobe CS5 and CS6. The bad news is that there is no success guarantee with any of them. You may have to try many of them before you are able to retrieve the key and still there is no certainty. But if it does work for you, it could be the easiest and simplest method.

We have worked with more than 10 top free key finder tools and haven’t found any one of them completely satisfactory. Belarc Advisor and Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder are arguably the two best freeware out there. We tested these two as well as the others and the success rate over a considerable sample size was never more than 50%.

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Here are some serious drawbacks of these free Keyfinder tools:

- They do not work with all the versions of the product;

- The success rate is too low. Trying a number of different Keyfinder tools could be a lengthy and tiring process with no success guarantee

- Some are able to find the key for the Suites but not the individual programs while the others are good only for individual applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator or Dreamweaver.

Method 2 – Decrypting the Registry

Adobe, just like any other software developer, saves the serial number of CS5/CS6 in the Registry of Windows OS. The product key is saved within a specific registry key. But, it isn’t as easy as it sounds. The registry key is saved in the encrypted form and you could not just read it out of your screen.

In order to recover the Adobe key you will require some serious decrypting of the key. While it is not completely impossible, it isn’t something that a layperson would want to try hands at. This is because the attempt to decrypt the registry entry may end up corrupting the registry. As a result, some of the programs or the OS itself may cease to function normally. You will certainly not like to see that happen.

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There are some tools that are designed to decrypt the registry entries. However, they offer no guarantee and you might still put your OS registry at risk. Try such a tool only if you are absolutely sure about what you are doing.

Method 3 – Finding the Key Physically

Depending upon the how you purchased the Adobe product, you may look up for the serial number on your own. For instance, if you downloaded the product from the Adobe website, you may find the serial number stored in your Adobe account. You could login to your account at https://accounts.adobe.com. However, it has been observed that the product key is not always there and sometimes your purchased product is not even listed in the account.

If you purchased the product from a physical retail store, you will need to look up for it on the card that came inside the box. But, the chances are that you have already lost the card and this is why you are looking for ways to retrieve the product key.

Method 4 – Using Serial Number Generators

It is true that there are many programs out there that generate the Adobe serial numbers. But, what you need to know is that most of them are fraught with malware that can cause some serious harm to your computer. More importantly, this method is not legal and thus you should never try it.

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Method 5 – Using Product Key Finder from UUkeys

If you have exhausted all the options, you must have already started wondering if it is even possible to retrieve the Adobe CS5/CS6 serial number. The good news is there is one tool called UUkeys Product Key Finder, which can find all types of keys and serial numbers for various software programs including Adobe CS5/CS6.

We have tested the product and to our surprise it had the 100% success rate. Product Key Finder recovers the key and saves it in a file. It is totally safe and does not cause any damage to the computer or data.

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Things that You Need:

A Windows computer .
UUkeys Product Key Finder .

Tutorial for Finding Adobe CS5/CS6 Serial Number

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Step 1. Download and Launch UUkeys Product Key Finder

Like usual, you should first download the installation file on the computer and install it later. Just follow the instructions during setup. Open the program from desktop shortcut for directly after installation was completed.

Step 2. Scan and Locate Adobe CS5/CS6 Product Key on the Computer

From the program main interface, you will see 3 buttons displayed at the bottom. Click "Start Recovery" to begin the key searching process.

The program will scan all product keys on that computer. A minute later, all product keys are loaded on the screen with details, such as product name, product key and product id.

Step 3. Save scanned Key to a File

You can directly copy the key from UUkeys Product Key Finder or save them on a computer for backup. The later is recommended because it is safe to do that. Once you forgot the serial number, you can easily find them in that file.

Now, copy the key and paste it for activation. After this, you can use the full features of Adobe CS5 or CS6 without limitation.

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Computer is the main workforce for more and more people. There are a lot of different programs installed on a single machine. And most of them are paid software, which requires license code for activation. So a simple method is needed to manage those keys efficiently. From the methods mentioned above, you can see UUkeys Product Key Finder is the easiest way to go. It can not only find serial number of Adobe products, it is also capable of finding Windows 7 product key as well as other paid programs.

Jan.12, 2016 11:25 am / Posted by Cathryn Akerman to Windows

Cathryn Akerman is a professional freelance technology author and worked 8 years as a computer system engineer. Cathryn keeps sharing this computer skills current through UUkeys to her readers and clients.