


Now I just have to figure out how to assure it will not auto-update and put me back in server failure hell. I must say I found the chat people with whom you connect when you click the Help tab in ADE was worthless (actually worse than worthless since the snarkily pointed out it was free if necessary software and therefor not supported) and the Forum articles simply cycled me through useless and sometimes scary (deactivating all my PC's security features) steps without resolving the problem.

Then go back in and reqauthorize your computer. After launching ADE hit CONTROL+SHIFT+D and say yes to delete authoriztion. I don't even know when v4.0 was downloaded or if it was automatic at some point, but by uninstalling v3.0 and v4.5 and selectively installing v4.0 everything worked the way it should. THe eauthnotready can be fixed by deleting your authorization (yes you have one even though it doesnt show) and then reauthorizing. This is still a confirmation that you can access the activation servers. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally. just cycled me through these error messages without solving the problem. Note: You may get an 'Access Denied' message when you click the CS5/CS5.5 link. Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. The registry editing, DE-authorizing/re-authorizing, shutting down windows firewall/Norton antivirus etc. I had updated from v3.0 to v4.5.2 to deal with the ASCM files type but got in the same endless loop of failure to authorize or failure to connect to authentication server, both errors (falsely) suggesting I was not connect to the internet. However, what I just did that worked was to delete ALL versions of ADE on my computer and reinstall version 4.0. None of the prior steps helped me at all. The above did NOT work for me but below is what did.
