Catch-22: Can't deactivate because I can't open Photoshop CS5

My laptop is malfunctioning in many ways so I plan to have it cleaned up by a computer shop, or (probably) replaced with a new one. I want to deactivate Photoshop CS5 before doing this, but for unknown reasons I cannot open it -- I get a Microsoft error report box every time I try to open it. How can I deactivate when I can't open the program?

Do you also have InDesign or Illustrator on it?
If so you can Deactivate Photoshop through them. Failing that, I think you have to call Adobe Support and they'll deactivate it for you.
Hope that's some help?!

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Boilerplate-text:
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