Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Adobe guy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:30:00 GMT

Photoshop is pirated a lot more than Illustrator or ImageReady, so the activation is more strict

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Jenni Merrifield (strawberryJAMM) — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:16:00 GMT

Adobe guy:

That's all well and good, and I absolutely have no problems with a software company's desire (and even need) for an activation process. The problem here is that Adobe's process for Photoshop CS, AS IMPLEMENTED, forces users to run the application under and administrator's acount. This, in turn, encourages users to always run as an admin account because then there are less hassles to worry about.

How Adobe is enforcing their activation is where the problem lies, not that they are enforcing it. There are many ways that the activation process for Photoshop CS could have been implemented that would not require users to run with an Administrator account or to enable a non-essential service for continuous background operation.

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Gabe — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:34:00 GMT

You might also be able to give BUILTIN\Interactive permissions to start and stop the services.

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Tom — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:00 GMT

I ran in to this same problem at my company. Something with our standard image under both win2k and xp prevented users from starting and stopped the service. A standard user on a fresh install was able to start and stop the service with no problem. It took me WEEKS to figure out that there was a service installed...it was literally the last place any of us thought to look...

So, I "solved" the problem by making the service automatic, just as you did.