

This is pretty academic for Creative Cloud as it uses a subscription model, yet a serial is still used behind the scenes.

Towards the bottom you should see a field Copy these files to the desktop and change the suffix to *.txt and open in a text editor. Once visible you should see files inside with *.swidtag extensions-these are standard xml files. This is a hidden folder and so you need to first go into Control Panel and change your 'folder options' to make them visible. I am not using any of the old products now, just Creative Cloud, where this method does reveal a serial number-at least under Windows 10, but can't test the older products I came across a different method a while back that allows for a serial to be retrieved from a folder on your hard disk. There is an equivalent for Macs but that costs $20. In the current economic climate I cannot afford to buy a new copy.As Bob says Belarc Advisor will find all your old serial numbers and it is free. I have moved house since then and there is no chance of finding it again if that is the case.ĭoes anyone know how I would go about being able to find or get a new serial number to activate the product? I have proof of purchase, both in the form of the box/sleeve and in the form of the emailed receipt from Amazon. Since I was able to install the product 2 years ago, I can only assume that I had the serial number then, but have subsequently lost it. Both my Mac and Windows installation disks were in the same sleeve, and that sleeve does not contain a serial number. I checked online and it said the serial number should be on the sleeve of the Windows disk. I have read everything on the box and the disk sleeve and found nothing which could be a serial number.

I put the disk in, went through the installation process, but am stuck at the final hurdle: I cannot find the product's serial number.

I have recently had to run a factory reset on my PC and am now in the process of trying to re-install PSE2018. I installed it and stuck the disk in a drawer. In 2018 I bought a physical copy of Photoshop Elements 2018.
