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  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    bigh said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Hellboy said:
    Along with this disclaimer in scary red:

    The serial numbers below should only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products.

    But the sentence immediately before that is "Adobe strongly advises against running unsupported and outdated software." The phrase "strongly advises" is not a prohibition. And far from being a legal repremand, the word "should" in the other sentence is rather wishy washy.

    As I've said before from long previous experience, trying to run old Adobe software mixed with new Adobe software on modern machines can get clunky, buggy, and frustrating because of all the gunk that Adobe keeps in the Windows "Registry". However, some of these older products do work tolerably well if you remember the caveats about their proper installation places and original Windows interfaces. Installing them into non-special folders, running them as administrators, and perhaps even running them under XP emulation might alieviate some problems if they pop-up.

    I'm still of the opinion that they opened the bottle and the genie escaped. Whether it was intentional or not, the result is not debatable. Somebody pointed out that Adobe probably doesn't want to get accused of "dumping" onto the market so they have to cover their ass with at least weak attempts to post a notice on the open barn door saying that the horses that were in the barn were theirs but who knows where they went. And besides, they were glue nags anyway.

    I actually have a legitimate copy of AfterEffects but I'm downloading the one offered on the website along with its license key. It's not a horse it's a hippo at 2.6GB !!!! 8-o I've been downloading for 20 minutes and am at 4%. The downloader's estimate is for 12 more hours. :-(

    Boy I feel good now - the hippo is taking me 6 hours ( all most done )

    done and installed - now to see what it will do ;-)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,504
    edited January 2013

    Yep, finally completed my download overnight.

    Also, did anybody notice that the download page now offers Adobe AcrobatPro7 instead of AcrobatPro8. It's a different download file and is half the size of the Pro8 version previously visible, and the license key is different. Why do I keep getting this mental image of Keystone Cops accidentally chasing the horses out of the barn???

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,753
    edited December 1969

    Both 7 and 8 were there orifinally, presumably as both used the CS2 activation server - Acrobat versions still tend to be out of step with the other applications.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,504
    edited February 2013

    In case anybody's interested. I've tried using the AdobePremierPro that was in that package. I installed it on an Intel dual-core Vista machine with an adequate audio card and graphics card and memory and storage and it appears to install OK and begins to work. I can load video clips. HOWEVER, once you start getting into the nitty gritty and poking around it has a nasty habit of totally freezing the computer if you try to examine right-click options. :( I get the same behavior on a Win8 machine. That kind of cripples its use. Bummer!

    It would probaby work on one of my old single-core XP machines but why bother? I can ride in a donkey cart too, but only as an amusement. 8-o

    Hmmm... perhaps if I ran it on a Vista or Win7 in XP compatability mode or XP emulation mode?

    Yep, on Vista it doesn't freeze if I mark the executable to run in XP compatability mode. :) Interesting product but way more complicated than I need. I'll stick with my PremierElements9

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  • tsaristtsarist Posts: 1,614
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:

    It would probaby work on one of my old single-core XP machines but why bother? I can ride in a donkey cart too, but only as an amusement. 8-o

    .
    I don't know what some of you guys are talking about. My XP Machine runs circles around my Vista "dual core" machine.
    XP startup in under a minute.
    Vista startup 5 minutes AT LEAST!
    .
    XP doesn't crash as often.
    Vista crashes a lot or applications get a lot of "Not Responding"s.
    .
    Next machine I get I'm going to take whatever is on there off and have them install XP.
  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    edited December 1969

    tsarist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    It would probaby work on one of my old single-core XP machines but why bother? I can ride in a donkey cart too, but only as an amusement. 8-o

    .
    I don't know what some of you guys are talking about. My XP Machine runs circles around my Vista "dual core" machine.
    XP startup in under a minute.
    Vista startup 5 minutes AT LEAST!
    .
    XP doesn't crash as often.
    Vista crashes a lot or applications get a lot of "Not Responding"s.
    .
    Next machine I get I'm going to take whatever is on there off and have them install XP.

    7 is actually nice. A huge improvement over Vista. If you can get that I would.
  • jorge dorlandojorge dorlando Posts: 1,157
    edited December 1969

    tsarist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    It would probaby work on one of my old single-core XP machines but why bother? I can ride in a donkey cart too, but only as an amusement. 8-o

    .
    I don't know what some of you guys are talking about. My XP Machine runs circles around my Vista "dual core" machine.
    XP startup in under a minute.
    Vista startup 5 minutes AT LEAST!
    .
    XP doesn't crash as often.
    Vista crashes a lot or applications get a lot of "Not Responding"s.
    .
    Next machine I get I'm going to take whatever is on there off and have them install XP.

    I agree! As they say: The good old XP.
    currently, I do not use the more Xp, even why my current machines came from the factory with win7 Xp ... But ... This is a milestone in everyone's life ... And still ... And nobody can deny this.
    If we look at the long road that ran XP until launch new version of win ... Now when they released Vista win, once had to throw win7
    Vista is heavy.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited December 1969

    ...after I migrate all my 3D work to the new workstation, I'll be installing CS2 on the Duo Core XP machine.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,504
    edited December 1969

    Congrats to the people who have spiffy XP machines. Unfortunately, as I indicated above, mine are are like mules in the Kentucky Derby. :-( I have three XP machines. All at least 10 years old. None of them are as spry as my 5 year old Vista machine. I can blame the poor response for a couple of the XPs on lack of memory maxed out at 512MB. But the slowest machine in the stable is maxed out at 1GB so memory is isn't all that's required for a winner.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,167
    edited December 1969

    having used CS2 on both XP and Win 7 boxes it runs smoother on XP but it was optimized to do so, Win7 was not developed at the time of CS2's release and consequently has to "dumb itself down" to get CS2 to run on it but it runs just dandy for the most part,

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,753
    edited December 1969

    Given that the Adobe download page now clearly states that the downloads should be used only by those with legitimate CS2 licenses we feel that it is time to lock this thread.

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