First thanks for being here!  I've been really frustrated with adobe and the whole serious magic purchase then all of the activation problems on vista.

Serious magic rocks!  Although my lighting usually does not but that's another issue.

Anyways I downloaded the latest activation utility (2009) from adobe today to unlock my ULTRA2 and Visual Communicator 2 products on my new Vista computer tried it and it did not work.  Although through some trial and error I thought I'd give you the steps on vista that do work.


1. download the zip file from adobe.

2. unzip the program SMActivate.exe

3. right mouse button click on SMActivate.exe and set it to "run as administrator"

4. then select the product you want to activate and chose ok.

It works great but without documentation I got frustrated as it does not find any products on your computer, unless you run as administrator.

Thanks for all of your work in getting adobe to make this utility.  I tried to talk to technical support and get some sort of update to Ultra2 but they said there was no update path and I needed to buy the master suite at $1500+ or so.

Randy