1. Serial Key Finder
2. Serial Key Driver Detective

Fortunately, the exact registry key that stores your Adobe Acrobat serial number is well known, as is a database file that stores it. Adobe Acrobat 10.0 Registration Information (64-bit). If you're comfortable in the Windows Registry, your Adobe Acrobat serial is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Broadgun pdfMachine V2.3 Name: Robert Jackson s/n: 7 (After installation, open up a document from which you wish to produce a PDF file. Select print, selecting the 'BroadGun pdfMachine' printer.

Like most programs you pay for, Adobe Acrobatrequires that you enter a unique serial number before using it. So, before you can install or reinstall Adobe Acrobat, you'll need to find the serial number that came with the program.

If you've lost your serial number, there's a very good chance you can retrieve it but only if Adobe Acrobat is still installed and the computer it's on is working.

You might be able to find your Adobe Acrobat serial number if you've uninstalled the program but only if the serial number information was left in the Windows Registry. We'll go over everything you need to know below.

Moreover, you can also extract messages as HTML or CSV files. And you can extract contacts as CSV files or as vCards. And, then you can use these vCards, HTML, CSV files with other apps.

The Adobe Acrobat serial number is actually more of a product key than a serial number but the terms are often used interchangeably.

How to Find Your Adobe Acrobat Serial Number

The easiest way to find your Adobe Acrobat DC or Acrobat X serial number is with a product key finder program.

Product key finder programs automatically search your computer for the product keys and serial numbers that your software programs store in the registry, Adobe Acrobat included.

See our Free Product Key Finders list for a number of programs that do just this. Not only that, they'll find your Acrobat serial for free. Most of the programs in that list are small and really easy to use.

The programs we've linked to will find the serial number for any recent edition of Acrobat, including Adobe Acrobat DC (Pro or Standard), Adobe Acrobat X, Adobe Acrobat 9, etc.

For example, Belarc Advisor, one of our favorite key finder tools (and the program shown in the example below), will properly locate the serial number for any version of Adobe Acrobat you have. If you find that another does for sure, let me know so I can keep this page updated.

The serial numbers in this picture have been greyed out but you'll see yours listed on the right side in plain text.

Most product key finder programs are designed to find serial numbers and product keys for operating systems, like Windows 10 or Windows 8, but some of them find serial numbers for several other programs as well — programs like Adobe Acrobat.

Other Ways to Find a Lost Adobe Acrobat Serial

While a keyfinder tool is certainly the easiest way to do this, no, it's not the only way.

If you're a little more technically inclined, there are a few additional ways to get your hands on a lost Acrobat serial number:

It'd be unwise of me to skip the obvious — maybe Adobe can help! Depending on how, when, and from whom you purchased Adobe Acrobat, you may be able to contact Adobe and get your Acrobat serial number from them.

Visit Adobe's Find Your Serial Number page for more help.

Fortunately, the exact registry key that stores your Adobe Acrobat serial number is well known, as is a database file that stores it.

If you're comfortable in the Windows Registry, your Adobe Acrobat serial is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Below is the exact location, depending on the version of the program and whether or not you're running a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows.

64-bit:

32-bit:

If you see multiple folders under Adobe Acrobat, replace 11.0 in the path above to whatever version of Acrobat you have.

Your other option is to grab the cache.db file from C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAdobeAdobe PCDcache and open it with any free SQLite database viewing tool.

Please know that this serial number is encrypted, meaning that what you find in the registry key or the database file is not the literal serial number you can enter to install Adobe Acrobat. You'll first have to decrypt the serial number.

The Adobe Acrobat serial number decryption process is fairly complex and has been well documented in this Super User thread, so we won't reinvent the wheel and post it here.

Acrobat Serial Number Generators & Cracks

Don't do that. There's no other way to put it.

While you may have come across Adobe Acrobat key generator programs or other kinds of Adobe Acrobat cracks, please know that these are not legal ways of obtaining a working serial number.

The only legal way of installing this program is by using a valid Adobe Acrobat serial number obtained through a legal purchase of the software.

If all else fails, you may be left with the final option of buying a new copy of the software. Amazon has great prices on most versions of Adobe Acrobat, plus options for previously used boxed copies as well.

Another option is to abandon Adobe Acrobat altogether and choose a free tool that does the same thing. Seriously. While not as robust, there are a number of other options out there.

Check out our list of the Best Free PDF Editors for some Acrobat alternatives that let you modify a PDF. Also see How to Print to PDF for multiple free ways to make a PDF file from any file or program.

Serial Key Finder

Files with a .key extension are created by Apple's 'Keynote' application which forms part of Apple's iWork office suite, a set of applications which run on the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and also includes Numbers (for spreadsheets) and Pages (for word processing).

Keynote began life in 2002 as an internal Apple tool developed for Steve Jobs to help him present at MacWorld. The first version was made available to the public in 2003 as Keynote 1.0 and was designed to compete with Microsoft's Powerpoint presentation software which formed part of Microsoft Office.

Designed to let users easily create, play and share presentations, Keynote contains most of the features found in modern presentation software, such as a slide navigator, the ability to add tables, shapes and charts to slides and a powerful media browser which allows users to drag and drop music from from iTunes, and photos from iPhoto and Aperture into their slides.

Keynote contains a large number of pre-designed themes to let users select common presentation formats, and powerful graphics tools to manipulate embedded images and provide advanced 3D transitions between slides (powered by OpenGL). The major Keynote releases are summarised below:

Serial Key Driver Detective

Version	Date	Key features
1.0	January 2003	First version - basic features - Import Powerpoint presentations, slide navigator, graphics support for rotations, resizing and opacity, charts and slide transitions.
2.0	January 2005	Released in iWork '05. Contained improved animations for slides and text, iLife media browser, new themes, more presenter controls, embedded hyperlinks and the ability to export presentations to Macromedia Flash.
3.0	January 2006	Released in iWork '06 with new themes, HD-capability, improved graphing and table features, cinematic transitions and 3D graphs.
4.0	August 2007	Released in iWork '08 with easier to use animation features, new templates, smart builds (for predefined animations), instant alpha (for removing backgrounds from photographs), and a new narration to add a voiceover to slideshows.
5.0	January 2009	Released in iWork '09. Contains support for MathType equations, a new share menu, trackpad support, 'magic move' (for easier transitions), improved presenter tools, but removed support for exporting to Flash.
5.1	July 2011	Added support for Mac OS X Lion, and included support for full screen functionality, auto-save, resume and versioning. Also with improved compatibility with Microsoft Office.
5.2	July 2012	Support added for iCloud documents and Retina displays.
5.3	December 2012	Adds Keynote support for iOS 6.0
6.0	October 2013	Part of new iWork suite for Mac, with 64-bit support and iCloud syncing.
6.1	January 2014	Improved compatibility with Microsoft Powerpoint.
6.5	October 2014	Updated design of OS X Yosemite, iOS 8 and a new file format to improve support for 3rd party online services.