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ProShow Gold - can't activate

I am trying to run ProShow from PhotoDex on Crossovers. It will run fine as a trial, but I can't register it with Photodex. Photodex says:

Greetings,

Thank you for your feedback but unfortunately you can't register ProShow with Crossover because Crossover doesn't provide any Windows registry. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and we appreciate your time and patience in this matter.

Kind Regards,

Is there any workaround?

That's serious bull... There is a registry, and every other software out there works just fine with it. I would suspect there's a reason for that outright lie, and I can imagine what it is, but I'm hesitant to discuss it. Since further discussion would constitute a workaround to circumvent an anti-copy system, at least from my perspective, it would be against forum rules to discuss the matter.

If you are a customer, open a support ticket, or write to info@codeweavers.com if not, and see what Codeweavers has to say.

Is that message something you got after private correspondence with Photodex, or something the photodex application put up (like in an error dialog) on its own?

Huh, I wonder what why we have regedit in Crossover then?

https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/registry_keys

:)

They're probably missing some hardware description registry keys that they use to create a system profile to lock the registration to this specific computer.

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