How to Find Your Adobe Product or License Key

Lost your Adobe products license key? No worries!

This guide will help you quickly recover activation keys of all Adobe products using multiple methods.

Find Adobe License Key in Order Email

Often you can find most of your softwares license key in the order email.

Follow the steps below to search for Adobe key in your email,

• Step 1. Login to your email inbox (used for ordering software)
• Step 2. Search for emails having “Adobe license” or “Adobe activation”
• Step 3. Now check in each found email to see if it has license key of your Adobe software

Find Adobe Product Key in Registry

Another way is to look for license keys in Windows Registry. Like most softwares, Adobe also stores activation key and other registration details in Registry.

Below is the Registry location where you can find Adobe software activation key

[Windows 32-bit]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\Registration\

[Windows 64-bit]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\ 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\[product_name]\[version]\Registration\

[Other Locations]
Adobe Acrobat v5.0 = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Acrobat 5.0\
Adobe Creative Suite 2 = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{0134A1A1-C283-4A47-91A1-92F19F960372}\
Adobe Illustrator CS2 = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{B2F5D08C-7E79-4FCD-AAF4-57AD35FF0601}\
Adobe InDesign CS2 = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{7F4C8163-F259-49A0-A018-2857A90578BC}\
Adobe Photoshop CS = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{EFB21DE7-8C19-4A88-BB28-A766E16493BC}\
Adobe Photoshop CS2 = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{236BB7C4-4419-42FD-0409-1E257A25E34D}\
Adobe Premiere Pro = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{A14F7508-B784-40B8-B11A-E0E2EEB7229F}\

Here are simple steps to locate your Adobe serial key in Registry,

• Step 1. Open Registry Editor (start menu -> search -> type regedit)
• Step 2. After it opens, on the left side navigate to above Registry key location.
• Step 3. Next, on the right side pane, you will find values named “SERIAL“, “EPIC_SERIAL“, “serial_number”, “USerial”, “ProdID”, “AMTSerial” containing the activation key.

Find Adobe License Key in File

For some products, Adobe also stores license keys in local disk.

Below is the file location where you can find Adobe software activation key

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\[product_name]\pcd.db
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\[product_name]\cache\cache.db

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\[product_name]\pcd.db
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\[product_name]\cache\cache.db

C:\ProgramData\regid.1986-12.com.adobe\*.swidtag

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