When I upgraded to Illustrator 8 it was from Illustrator 4.
It would not recognize my serial number.
I have had to call Adobe every time that I needed to reinstall it since.
Then I discovered this fact.
Illustrator 8 dose not need to be installed!
That's right, by chance in frustration with having to call Adobe; I just copied my Illustrator folder to a CD and then copied it to my new computer (I thought I might be able to run the install over it without having to get a new code.)
Well once it was there I decided to click on Illustrator.exe and see what error message I got.
Surprise it started up and ran fine.
That was years back on my Windows 98 computer, since then I have moved it a number of times most recently to my Windows XP computer and every time it works fine.
I just had to remove and reinstall Windows XP, and the only program that would start up and run without being reinstalled was Illustrator.
I wonder if this would work with any other version?
Mike
It would not recognize my serial number.
I have had to call Adobe every time that I needed to reinstall it since.
Then I discovered this fact.
Illustrator 8 dose not need to be installed!
That's right, by chance in frustration with having to call Adobe; I just copied my Illustrator folder to a CD and then copied it to my new computer (I thought I might be able to run the install over it without having to get a new code.)
Well once it was there I decided to click on Illustrator.exe and see what error message I got.
Surprise it started up and ran fine.
That was years back on my Windows 98 computer, since then I have moved it a number of times most recently to my Windows XP computer and every time it works fine.
I just had to remove and reinstall Windows XP, and the only program that would start up and run without being reinstalled was Illustrator.
I wonder if this would work with any other version?
Mike