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C. Burks
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March 28, 2013
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Uninstalling/reinstalling CS2

  • March 28, 2013
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I recen'ty got a new machine and ran into the activation issues with older versions of the Suite. I have CS5, but need to run Photoshop CS2 as well for the screening features in the output end of things that were removed from 5 & 6.

I found the link to the new download of the suite that Adobe provided for the new activation process of CS2 but ran into uninstall problems with the version I installed from disk. When I try to install from the download, it detects Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 installed on my machine despite uninstalling them. The "uninstaller" failed to work, so I went throught the manual uninstallation including the registry edits but the CS2 installer still detects Illustrator and Photoshop CS2 as installed.

FWIW I am running Win 7 64 bit and the CS5 Suite as well. I simply need to keep a working version of Photoshop CS2 in addition to that for my output necessities. Unfortunately this is not a problem I can solve by simply upgrading software as the feature no longer exists in the newer versions. The last version that supported line screen & angle control was CS4, which I do not own because I jumped from CS2 to CS5.  Any advice on how to find and remove the previous CS2 install information that the new installer is detecting would save me a lot of grief as at this point I am out of ideas except reformatting and starting from scratch.

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    kglad
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    kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 28, 2013

    http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/manually-remove-creative-suite-2.html

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    C. BurksAuthor
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    March 28, 2013

    Thanks but that is the process I referred to in my post. I've been

    through it and the new installer still detects Illustrator and

    Photoshop CS2 as installed and it will not continue.

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    March 28, 2013

    there's no more thorough explanation of how to wipe cs2 from your computer after a failed uninstall and there is no cleaner tool for as2.

    you could try reinstalling cs2 from your disk, then properly uninstalling using the uninstaller.

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