{"id":4513,"date":"2015-09-05T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2016-12-03T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:38:17","slug":"adobe-digital-edition-woe-error-check-activation-how-i-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Digital Edition Woe – “Error! Check Activation” – How I Fixed It"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reasons, one of my Windows 7 PC’s complained about “Error! Check Activation” when I tried to download an ePub eBook from Overdrive, an eBook loan program from my library. On another PC, I had no problem and I didn’t have this problem on this PC before. So I decided to remove the Adobe Digital Edition’s authorization and re-authorize. Then I encountered this error “”unable to erase authorization. please try after some time” I kept trying and trying without avail. <\/p>\n

After googling\/checking around and based on this Adobe Forum thread<\/a>, I was able to fix the authorization removal problem by editing the Windows register directly:<\/p>\n

\"run<\/a>
\n1. Quit Adobe Digital Edition.
\n2. Choose Start > Search for regedit (On Windows 10: it’s in c:\\Windows directory)
\n3. Right click on regedit, ans select “Run as admininstrator”
\n4.In the left pane of the Registry Editor, locate the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Adobe\\Adept
\n5. Select “Adept” , right click on it and select “Delete”
\n6. In the Confirm Key Delete dialog, click OK.
\n7. Close the Registry Editor.
\n8. Open Adobe Digital Editions and reauthorize (Help->Authorize Computer…).<\/p>\n

And Voila! It worked. I can download the eBook again.
\nAnother tip: be sure to de-authorizethe PC when you decided to retire it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reasons, one of my Windows 7 PC’s complained about “Error! Check Activation” when I tried to download an ePub eBook from Overdrive, an eBook loan program from my library. On another PC, I had no problem and I didn’t have this problem on this PC before. So I decided to remove the Adobe … Continue reading Adobe Digital Edition Woe – “Error! Check Activation” – How I Fixed It<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-for-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}