AE CS4 & CS5

I am about to purchase Adobe after effects and i understand CS6 reuires windows 64 while i still use XP 32, how can i get CS4? would CS5 work on windows XP?

AE has been 64bit ever since CS5, so no, that won't work. And you cannot buy CS4 anywhere otehr than a used license from someone, but seriously, it would be easier to just go out and upgrade your operating system to 64bit. Windows 8 costs 30 Euros/ dollars under some conditions if you have a previous Windows version...
Mylenium

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