Photoshop CS for windows

[mike-reed19]

I am a CC Photoshop subscriber running an I Mac. I wish to install CS (8) on an old Windows computer running XP pro. I have the original installation disk and it appears to install ok. I add the serial number and then get into the authorization round about and seem totally unable to get in contact with Adobe to resolve this matter. I get to their chat service but it does not respond and the telephone activation is discontinued. Auto activation does not work either. It is driving me mad.

HELP

Mike Reed

[Per Berntsen · Accepted solution]

The activation servers for CS and CS2 have been shut down.

Adobe has provided a non-activation version of CS2 as a replacement.

First uninstall the old version of CS, then download and install CS2 from here:

"Activation server unavailable" error in Adobe CS2, Acrobat 7, and Audition 3

Do not use your old serial, use the one that is provided next to the download.

[Denis23]

Jan. 2020   Just wasted over two hours on Adobe's useless chat line to be offered an expensive app because I can't reload my CS2 version after a computer crash.   This link provides no reference to CS2 downloads nor the (fictitious?) alternate recovery version mentioned in other posts which does not require an authorization code.   Why am I unable to operate a program for which i have paid, have all the original discs but am prevented to reinstall and use it???