Activation keys needed for CS5 please

[skizz720]

i have downloaded CS5 and received some keys but none of them worked.. does anyone have any activation keys for CS5 that i could use please??? rep+thanks will be added!

[Alen]

Read the nfo next time, you need to patch your hosts file, activate the key and patch your activation dll or whatever. New keys won't help if you didn't patch your hosts file.

[Trianglez]

You didnt patch :/

[skizz720]

Read the nfo next time, you need to patch your hosts file, activate the key and patch your activation dll or whatever. New keys won't help if you didn't patch your hosts file.

how do i do that? i wasn't told about this by the person that gave me the keys.. im new to this stuff so i didn't know about that..

[[MPGH]Killian]

1; Uninstall all previous cs3/4 photoshop apps.

2; Turn off internet

3; Replace your hosts file with the one in this folder
or open your hosts file with notepad and change it
to look like this;

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe.activate.com
127.0.0.1 adobeereg.com
127.0.0.1 https://www.adobeereg.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.90
127.0.0.1 125.252.224.91
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com

hosts file is at;

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

4; Restart and make sure hosts entries are saved (open it with notepad and look).

5; Install photoshop CS5 using serials;

1325-1558-5864-4422-1094-1126

6; Copy the dll file from this folder and replace each of the amtlib.dll
files in c:\program files\adobe