What provisions are you making for Creative Master CS4 owners? "Activation Servers Retired" $2,500

CREATIVE SUITE 2, 3, AND 4

You can no longer reinstall Creative Suite 2, 3 or 4 even if you have the original installation disks.

A quirk with CS4 is that you CAN still install and activate CS4 as things stand today. I did it successfully a couple of weeks because I occasionally read in these forums that CS4 activation was still possible but no-one knew for sure.

Seems that retiring the CS, CS2 and CS3 activation servers also removed the ability to DEactivate CS4. But, as Nancy says, these are very old, superseded products.

Notwithstanding the above, this is really a discussion for Windows users. With or without activation, none of these products can be installed on modern Macs running Catalina or Big Sur.

Creative Suite is end of life. That ship sailed a l-o-n-g  time ago.

Assuming you never upgrade your computer and you never need support or re-activation services, it's possible to keep using CS products indefinitely.   But for ongoing support from Adobe (or any software maker), you need current products.  As of this writing, Adobe supports Creative Cloud products  2020 and higher, not legacy-ware from 10-15 years ago.

Do you realize this is a public forum and not Adobe?

Post that here where the Adobe engineers read all threads:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

I've moved this from the Using the Community forum (which is the forum for issues using the forums) to the CC forum.

Update the activation servers for backward compatibility and ask Microsoft for help.