Activating Photoshop CS

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I am trying to activate my software. My Photoshop CS (I know it is old but has worked fine for many years) suddenly was "not responding" and would not open. I uninstalled Creative Suite and reinstalled but am unable to activate the software. The online activation keeps telling me the site is unavailable and the toll phone line is not in service and the toll-free line has an hour and a half wait (if it will ever be answered at all). I need my Photoshop and I need it now. Please help.

Jeffrey_A_Wright · Accepted Answer

SG85321 the activation server for Photoshop CS has been shut down. Please see Looking to activate Creative Suite 2, Acrobat 7, or Macromedia products - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4919014#4919014?sdid=KCHDS which discusses how you can obtain a non-activating version. You will want to download and install Photoshop CS2 from the offered Suite download.

Adrian_the_Rock · Answer

One small point I didn't see answered in any of the postings or discussions on this, but these download versions still only contain the original versions of the CS2 apps, without the various updates that were subsequently distributed to users.

I've recently had to download the no-activation version of Photoshop CS2 after having my old PC's hard disk cloned onto a larger drive. This worked OK, and thankfully I still had copies of the install files for the various updates I needed (eg Photoshop 9.0.2, Bridge 1.0.4.6, Camera Raw 3.7), though Bridge does not display a spurious message claiming I don't have an Internet connection every time I start it up. But for anyone who hasn't kept the install files for these updates, how would they upgrade the non-activation version to get the various updates that were originally distributed?

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