Uninstalling/reinstalling Pre 9

Question

I had a serious problem with the program and need to reinstall, but when going to uninstall several warnings sound quite severe, it says "after removal this program will no longer be available for use."
"before uninstalling Adobe premiere elements nine, you should make sure you have deactivated and removed any serial numbers used when installing it on this machine"
"Deactivating will allow you to activate your Adobe product on another computer"
I was just hoping to uninstall and reinstall it on the same computer, what is the correct procedure? Does it have to be deactivated or not?
Many thanks,
Brushman1000

Answer 1

I think i should jump in here as i had worked with installer and licensing team for some time earlier. Retail serial numbers are tied up with 2 activations which means one serial number can be used simultaneously on 2 machines in activated state. After that if someone tries to activate the same serial number on 3rd machine, serial number is accepted but the moment activation is attempted to adobe server error is displayed that "this SN has already been used on 2 other machines. Please deactivate from one of the machines and then use the same SN on this machine or try from a new SN". This is the reason deactivation information is prompted to users during uninstallation. In case if they forget to deactivate but uninstalled, they will continue to see the same error on 3rd machine. This process of deactivating from one of two machines and then activating to 3rd machine is referred as transfer activation. And there is a limit to this number actually whose limit i don't remember exactly but hardly anyone reaches that limit.
So if you have to reinstall on the same machine, you can continue without deactivating the software and there is not any limit to activation on the same machine. Adobe activation server tracks only machine information and number of transfer activation.
Only difference between permanent and suspend deactivation is in case of permanent it removes SN from installed databse also along with deactivation. While in case of suspend deactivation, SN is retained in one of the database file but the deactivation is done from server. Advantage of this method is if someone has lost the SN, he/she can install in trial and at the launch time software is activated either automatically or already entered SN is displayed to him/her and activation is prompted.
Hope this helps,
Tahseen