Upgrading Vista 64 to Windows 7 64 with CS4

I am preparing to perform an upgrade of my Vista x64 installation to Windows 7 x64. I have CS4 installed - do I need to deactivate CS4 prior to doing the upgrade (not a clean install of Windows 7), or will the license still be recognized without activation issues after the migration to Windows 7 (same hardware).

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated ...
Adobe most strongly recommends that you do a clean install of any new operating system version of Windows even though Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit are almost kissing cousins (so to speak). Our experience is that the so-called upgraders provided with the new OS releases really don't do an adequate job of fully and properly migrating all the settings and files necessary for your upgraded OS to run properly. This is especially true for various system drivers (including video drivers), registry entries, and special file locations. You will find that there are things that happen that never are quite right operating under such in-place upgrades. Doing a clean install OS upgrade does really require that you fully reinstall all software, especially Adobe software after the clean install which does imply reformatting your system disk partition after backing up all your data. You would be very prudent to deactivate any and all Adobe software prior to this process.
If you are foolhardy enough to avoid our recommendation with regards to the clean install of Windows 7 64-bit, most likely you will be safe in terms of the activation, but I suspect that ultimately you will be sorry.
- Dov

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