This Copy Of PaintShop Pro Has Been Damaged Or Illegally Modified

[Dypsis]

I recently extended the size of my recovery partition by shrinking the main partition by 400 MB and extending the Recovery Partition into the unallocated space.
Now, when I open my legally owned copy of Corel PaintShop Pro 2022, I get this message.

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Does anyone know how to fix it?

[Dypsis]

I'm really getting sick of Corel. All that they are achieving in doing is inconveniencing their honest loyal customers.
Why should I have to completely remove this and reinstall it because they're trying to stop about 1% of pirates? I have better things to do with my time. The pirates will still win anyway. In fact, I'd probably be better off being a pirate than being a legitimate customer. How dumb is Corel for that? The internet is strewn with this same problem for legitimate customers.

Bruce nails it in this post.

[Radim]

Have you restarted your PC between those two operations? 1. resize partition, 2. restart PC and 3. PSP open?

[Dypsis]

Have you restarted your PC between those two operations? 1. resize partition, 2. restart PC and 3. PSP open?

Yes.

[Kathy_9]

Sounds like somehow Protexis has been disabled.

https://kb.corel.com/en/127147

and,

https://kb.corel.com/en/127213

[Dypsis]

Thank you very much to Radim and Kathy_9.
Your replies are much appreciated.

I just did a repair install, and it worked.
I hate doing that, 'cause you usually find that some setting aren't the same. But at least it's working now.

Take care.