I - and others - suspect it's a glitch with the Protexis Licensing Service, and may be system specific somehow related to previous PSP installations and perhaps PSP file changes made by some users. And I suspect when I install 2020 when it comes out the popup will begin with my 2019.
Within a short period of time I started getting the popup with 2018, but no popup with 2019 to date. I will also note that I eventually had the issue with X7 through 2018, starting with X7 and then, within a few weeks, it migrated to X8 and X still worked without the popup. However, the good news is that despite the fact that the warning says the program will be deactivated or only work in view mode, in my case anyway I just close the stupid popup and the program works as it should, including saving files, etc. The latest incarnation was earlier this year, and you can read the thread here: You are not alone, and this issue has popped up at least a couple of times starting around the year 2013, and also affected some Corel Visual Studio users. I have used Corel products for years and always purchased from them. Buddy123 wrote:Pop up came up saying I have an Illegal copy of Paintshop pro x9 and it will be switched to viewer mode.
