ERROR "Licensing for this product has stopped working" =

Solution (try A then start the app if not fixed do B and so on);

A Do steps in the ADOBE LICENCE RECOVERY TOOL.

B Start FLEXnet manually.
  1. Go to Start/Run and type services.msc into the Open field, then press 
     [Enter]
  2. Look for FLEXnet Licensing Service under the column labelled Name
  3. Right click on FLEXnet Licensing Service, selected Properties
  4. Under the General tab, Set the start-up type to Manual and click on Start 
     to start the service
  5. Under Recovery tab for the first failure, chose Restart the Service
  6. Click OK

C Rename the FLEXnet data folder.
  1.Rename the FLEXnet folder to FLEXnet_old in the following locations: 
  On Windows XP: 
  Documents and Settings AllUsers ApplicationData FLEXnet 
  On Windows Vista/7: 
  ProgramData FLEXnet
  2. Start the app and enter a serial if prompted.

D Reset your permissions on the licensing service data folder.
  On Windows XP Professional
  1.Choose Start = Control Panel.
  2.Double-click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
  3.Scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings section, and then deselect 
  the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) option.
  4.Click OK.
  5.In the Control Panel Explorer window, click the address bar, 
  type %ALLUSERSPROFILE%Application Data, and then press Enter.
  6.Right-click the FLEXnet folder, and choose Properties.
  7.In the Attributes section, deselect the Read-Only option.
  8.Click Apply, and then click OK to close the Confirm Attribute Changes 
  dialog box.
  9.Click the Security tab.
  10.Make certain that Administrators and System are listed and permissions 
  for security are set to Full Control.
  11.Click Advanced.
  12.Select the Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries 
  Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects option.
  13.Click the Owner tab.
  14.Select Administrators.
  15.Select the Replace Owner On Subcontainers and Objects option.
  16.Click OK, and then click Yes in the Security dialog box.
  17.Click OK to close the FLEXnet Properties dialog box.
  18.Launch your Adobe application
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  On Windows 7/Vista
  1.Choose Start > Computer.
  2.Choose Organize > Folder and Search Options, and then click the View tab.
  3.Scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings section, and then deselect 
  the Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended) option.
  4.Click OK.
  5.In the Computer Explorer window, click the address bar, 
  type%ALLUSERSPROFILE%, and then press Enter.
  6.Right-click the FLEXnet folder, and then choose Properties.
  7.In the Attributes section, deselect the Read-Only option.
  8.Click Apply, and then click OK to close the Confirm Attribute Changes 
  dialog box.
  9.Click the Security tab.
  10.Make certain that Administrators and System are listed and permissions 
  for security are set to Full Control. If not, do the following: 
  a. Click Edit.
  b.If the User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt appears, then 
  follow the instructions to accept it.
  c.Make the necessary changes.
  11.Click Advanced.
  12.Click the Owner tab.
  13.Click Edit, and then accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.
  14.In the Change Owners Section, click Administrators.
  15.Select the Replace Owner On Subcontainers and Objects option.
  16.Click Apply and click Permissions tab.
  17.Click Edit, and then accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.
  18.Select the Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries 
  Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects option.
  19.Click OK, and then click Yes.
  20.Click OK, and then click OK in the Windows Security dialog box.
  21.Click OK to close the Advanced Security Settings for FLEXnet dialog box.
  22.Click OK to close the FLEXnet Properties dialog box.
  23.Launch your Adobe application.

E Reset your permissions on the Adobe PCD folder
  Use the methods described in solution D, but apply it to the following folder:
  C: ProgramFiles CommonFIles Adobe PCD

F Remove the SQLite journaling file
  1.Using Explorer, navigate to Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeAdobe PCDcache.
  2.If present, delete cache.db-journal.
  3.Launch your Adobe application
  4.If the file is not there to delete go on to G.

G Delete the virtual store.
  1.Close all Adobe applications
  2.Browse to 
  C: Users [username] AppData Local VirtualStore Program Files 
  (x86)Common Files Adobe
  3.delete the folder
  4.Launch the application
  5.If the problem persists, do the same with the caps folder

H Delete the virtual storeAdobe registry key
  1.Close all Adobe applications.
  2.Log into Windows as an administrator.
  3.Choose Start All Programs Accessories Run, and type regedit.
  4.Click the continue button in the User Account Control dialogue box.
  5.Make a backup copy of the registry by choosing File Export. Name the backup 
  and save it to a location you'll remember.
  6.Right-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes VirtualStore MACHINE 
  SOFTWARE Adobe
  7.Select delete. Exit from the registry.
  8.Launch the application
