I bought and downloaded MAGIX PhotoStory on DVD 2013 Deluxe. I wanted a file I can keep so when I refomat I can easily reinstall. Should I have bought the DVD also? How does this work if I want to reinstall due to reformat. I reformat about every 6 months.
Hi,
If you reformat every 6 months, the DVD may help but where you are going to have a problem is when you go to reactivate the application. I think you are only allowed 2 or 3 reactivations before you have to re-purchase. This will likely be true for most software that requires activation. Have you been doing this for a long time? If you have I am surprised that you have not had problems with your Microsoft operating system activation, I am pretty sure microsoft only lets reactivate once. Are you actually completely reformatting your hard drive every 6 months? If so, would you mind telling me why?
George
I am a gamer so I like my machine tweaked and running at its best. After time the registry will get bloated. Also you will get driver conflicts. So I have My c:drive save on a image file with all updates on it. I reinstall my image and update drivers and am good to go. Doing a image drive does not count as a reinstall for activation with Microsoft.. I wish I knew about the limitations of this software or I would have not bought it or will I recommend it. I guess next image reinstall I could have this software installed then bachup my c:drive with a new image. Some of us gamers are just fanatical about our operating system at its best.
Hi,
Now I understand. Not being a competitive gamer, I had not thought of the importance of having a virtually clean system. So, if you have no problem restoring from an image, I doubt that you would have problems with Photo Story. The limit of 3 re-registrations is really a limit for people who have a system crash with no back up and need to completely re-install the application. Microsoft used to allow 1 re-installation for people with no system image as back up but I think with Windows 8 they don't even allow 1 anymore.
I see no reason why when you restore from a saved image that you would have a problem with PhotoStory because the image should already have the serial number or activation key installed on the image.
George
Hi
Your imaging process is similar to mine - once you have registered the software and the created a clean base image of your system drive, then you should not be bothered by having to re-register the software after installing the clean image.
The only problem you ma have is if you change too many components at the same time and re-istall the clean image - but then Windows will also complain and want re-registering / activating - if this happens then you will find that Magix is very generous with three activations without hassle.
John
Thanks all for your replies.