Photoshop and lightroom for windows 8.1

[juliet66420453]

I had to do a computer refresh yesterday of windows 8.1. I now can't reinstall photoshop or lightroom. I have tried chat but they simply say the download has been removed and I have to upgrade to windows 10 or downgrade to 7. I'd prefer to do neither - I just want to use what I was using. I don't really want to cancel either. I would prefer not to use a third party site. Can anyone help please? 

[John T Smith]

Adobe no longer provides programs for Win7 or Win8

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html
-Win7 is dead https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-end-of-life-support-information
-Win8 is also no longer supported https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4580358/windows-8-1-update

Your ONLY option, if the programs are still available, is this

Direct Download Links https://prodesigntools.com/tag/ddl MAY help
-you MUST do what it says in Note: Very Important Instructions
-https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-2015-direct-download-links.html#download-instructions
-the prodesign links go directly to Adobe's file server, so this process
--will only work until Adobe completely removes the old version(s) from the server
.
When you do have a download, be sure to copy it to AT LEAST one external device
-since Adobe does sometimes remove old versions from the server
-a usb flash drive or hard drive, or write to a DVD