After Effects CS4 crash report (PLZ HELP I NEED IT WORKING DESPERATELY)

Ok, I'll type the window EXACTLY (There's 2 errors I need to fix): -
After Effects error: Crash in progress. Last logged message was:,7832.
<ASL.ResourceUtils.GetLanguageIDFromRegistry> >0< Unable to
obtain the User 'Language' registry key at: Software\Adobe\After
Effects\9.0.3\ Defaulting to 'en_US'.
After Effects can't continue: sorry, After Effects has crashed. See
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/aftereffects.html for known
issues. If you still can't resolve the issue, please contact Adobe
Technical Support (2)
(0::42)
I'm using CS4 ONLY because I have a 32 bit Windows 8.1 computer which has Nvidia GFX card and an i5 processor.
It has 4GB of RAM and that's all you need to know. Please help me guys. <3
Thnx,

What I meant was that it was running at all was a lucky happenstance.
xX360noscopfazeopticXx wrote:
Could Adobe actually see my personal data of my computer and just put an error message there to prevent me from using After Effects just because they realized that I have a Windows 8.1 32 bit computer?
No. There is no way they could do that. Especially not in CS4.
There are a lot of people in the same situation as you who pop on the forums with some frequency. Well, not usually trying to run such an old version - it's usually CS5 or CS5.5, but the issues are similar: odd error messages. Trying to run old versions of software on new, unsupported operating systems can be a fun exercise (like getting Linux installed on a potato). However, even if it does work for a while, the least little thing can cause it to foul up. Maybe Windows updated, maybe a background service that wasn't running before is running now, maybe something subtle changed in your registry or your display settings or any of a thousand different things. The bottom line is that something changed between when it was working and now.
The error message seems to indicate some sort of issue in your registry. That is a tricky area to mess around in. Have you installed ANYTHING on your computer between when it was working and now? Added any browser extensions? Installed any codec packs? Downloaded any apps? Updated any software?
By the way, it's not very expensive to bump up to a 64-bit version of your OS if you did want to use a modern version of After Effects. I mean, if you want to continue working with After Effects, it would be a lot easier to use an older OS or a newer AE than to keep trying to kludge it like we are.

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