2010 LT Activation Code

[Anonymous]

I recently installed the new Windows 10 update.  When I open autocad it is asking me to activate my copy.  When I check the box to get an activation code, it tells me that it cannot be activated due to a serial or version number issue. 

Obviously, there is no support for 2010 and I cannot find a customer support number or email address to get this resolved.

Any help would be much appreciated.

TIA!

[matliks]

Dude, it worked. Without updates, without notifications. Maybe you’re a bit younger and you are used to register in every app, every site, get update each week, get notifications about everything. If it’s ok for you - why not? Some of us are „buy and use” users. We used to buy software with standalone licence. We do not need all the cr@p you get now (my Photoshop gets update evey week - it’s why I like to use my old cs2 standalone). We would like to work on software we own. I know it’s common now, to sell a subscription plan, to rent an app. If it’s ok for you - why not? If it’s not ok for me, do not try to make it my fault. It is not. And it is why MS is still selling office 2019 alongside 365 (my Office 2010 do not work on latest macOS, but on older OS I can still install and use it). You choose how to spend your money. I’m constantly choosing standalone license, when possible. There is no other software that is not working any more just like acad 2010lt do. We buy standalone versions to avoid such a situation. It’s cheating. We did spend a lot of money to have all-time working app. Do not blame us. It is not our fault.

[RobDraw]

You should stop making assumptions about people. You're not very good at it. I have AutoCAD 2000 and can install it and be up and running at any time I choose. I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago that trying to keep it running on new hardware and OSs wasn't something I could count on. 

By the way, it's common sense to make sure you can be up and running with your program in case of something catastrophic. I learned that the first time I had a problem and couldn't get my work done because I was wasting hours fixing a freak issue. If you choose to not have a backup plan, you are choosing to risk losses. It's that simple. You could still be using your software. No one took that from you. A lot of the people like you chose to run the program on an OS that was not recommended. That is also a risk because Autodesk specifically warns against it.

If you choose to take those kinds of risks and don't take the responsibility of maintaining and protecting your investment, that's a choice. Do you do the same with your vehicle and expect it to run indefinitely?

The stuff you are saying is coming from a place where you ignore your responsibilities until something goes wrong and then blame others when it does. Tell me, is that how you run other aspects of your life?

How can it be anybody else's fault? 

[matliks]

So you say, you follow Honda on instagram or got Toyota account? Is it recommended by vendors? Dealers maybe? Did Autodesk recomend it in 2010? I use it on win10 and win 7 and on winxp also. There is a problem on recommended OS also!

What do you mean catastrophic? I did image of my cd and photocopy of my serial number.

I do not have any writing on the wall. I don’t use social media, and that do not makes me guilty of my software don’t want to activate.

The stuff I am saying comes from a place when I bought software, I was using it, and when I need to reinstall it, I can’t. Even through I did everything as I was supposed to do. How can you assume that is my fault (maybe my fault was to get acad)?

Stop trying to point at users, when Autodesk turned off their servers. (and yet, that’s not their fault)

PS. I do not expect my car to run indefinitely. I expect, that there will be no day, when someone in Honda say:

- turn off all 9 year old cars.

- what about those on a move?

- they can run until user stop the engine.

- should we inform users?

- post a picture with a note, on some social media.

- but not all our users use them or follow our account

- ok then. You should find someone who will blame them for ignorance while they will start to ask questions…

[RobDraw]

Ignorance is not an excuse to pass blame. 

Your car manufacturer analogy is ridiculous. We are talking about the real world where you can keep a car running without the manufacturer existing. You can do the same with your software but are playing a blame game instead of finding a solution. You don't need Autodesk.

[Anonymous]

What was your back up plan Rob?

[RobDraw]

I've given more than enough advice. What does it matter what I do? I always have at least one backup plan. More than necessary to minimize down time and NEVER lose access to my software. If I did lose access, it definitely wouldn't be Autodesk's fault.

[Anonymous]

Since you seem to be so High and Mighty, why don’t you offer to tell those of us who try to follow the Rules how you manage to use LT 2008 without formal authorization codes? Do you generate your own? Do you get them somewhere else? Does AutoDesk give you codes on the side as a favor? Did you crack the program and circumvent authorization codes? Do you dare put your method(s) out here in public space? If it is legal and ethical, why not?

[Anonymous]

You’re wasting your time conversing with this guy Terry.

[RobDraw]

What makes you think that I use such antiquated software? That boat sailed many years ago. 

[pendean]

@Anonymous most of the folks advising that Autodesk cut you pre-2010 users off forever are not using those antiques anymore.

Your options are cut and dry, stop wasting your time hoping for a miracle:
1) If you want to stay with Autodesk, whip out a credit card and pay for an annual subscription.
2) Move to Europe, permanently, buy a used copy there and if the EU rules are still in good standing, you might get your purchase of an old copy to authorize and work.
3) Find another CAD vendor: there are still some freebies that look/act like your golden oldie that have not flipped to behind a pay-wall yet. There are others that have a steep starting price but you can hold on to that software "forever" until they change the rules on you again.
4) Go back to hand drafting.
5) get conned on the far corners of the internet by scammers selling you more than you expect when you find what looks like a miracle fix.

Hope your week gets brighter.

[Anonymous]

I like 2008 and other engineers here like it.  It is a great layout.  We don't like the newer versions.  They are not as good.  We just want to run what we paid for.  It's really very simple.  We bought it as a perpetual license.  It should have never needed continual activation.  Once it was legitimately activated the first time, its should have been the owner's property.  What AutoDesk did was unethical, and as you say to force people to "pull out a credit card" even though the users BOUGHT the program.  It should be my business if I like an older program.  Maybe it's an antique, but it is a great antique and it works beautifully. 

[cadffm]

Most of is are with you, but we (other users) can't change the reality.

>>"I like 2008 and other engineers here like it.  It is a great layout.  We don't like the newer versions. "

Sounds that you doesn't know that you can run the same layout also in newer versions!?

It doesn't change all of your statements, i just like to add this information because it some people doesn't know that:

Except some small details like  colors of the gui or some predefined icon/images, but the whole layout can be the same!

[RobDraw]

If you were still running the appropriate operating system, you might have a leg to stand on.  Once you upgraded, you chose to risk losing the ability to use your program. There is a difference between perpetual and permanent. 

[matliks]

Stop all that trash talk and lies. I'm on Windows XP and Windows 10. I need an activation on both.
We rather wait for your magical method to use old, licensed soft, than another try to convince us to buy new one.
No one want to.

[Anonymous]

As I said to Terry Livingston previously, it’s a waste of time conversing with this guy and for that matter, the other so called ‘mentors’ who have stuck their biased noses into this issue.

[RobDraw]

So why say it again? Nothing constructive to add?

[pendean]

@Anonymous
>>>... We don't like the newer versions ...<<<
Or you just don't know (and fear knowing) or the real excuse is something else...

ReCreate the "Classic" Workspace with all the toolbars and pulldown menus from old (with no Ribbon) in about one minute in any new version:

MENUBAR command, turn it on = 1 (4 seconds)
Go to Tools > toolbars > acad > layers (5 seconds)
hoover over layers toolbar > right click > properties (3 seconds)
hoover over any toolbar > right click > standard (3 seconds)
hoover over any toolbar > right click > styles (3 seconds)
hoover over any toolbar > right click > workspaces (3 seconds)
RIBBONCLOSE command (3 seconds)
arrange toolbars as you desire (20 seconds)
WORKSPACE command, SAVEAS option, CLASSIC will be the new name you type (5 seconds)

BOOM!

[diego_dorta]

hello Mark,
did you noticed that the link you gave is no longer available?
that was an official notice to give to the clients that now is gone!!!
do you have any other link to this kind of info?

thank you

[pendean]

@diego.dorta 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/previous-version-support/reminder-no-change-to-previous-version-suppo...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/users-software/previous-versions/...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/users-software/previous-versions/...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/users-software/previous-versions

But... you can open a ticket with the Licensing support and confirm your options for sure here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/contact-support/installation-activation

[diego_dorta]

@pendean

thank you but any of the link above tells about the ending of the support for elder version occurred in august 2019.