CS2 usability

Hello,
Last december I purchased Photoshop CS6 from a reseller and I use this on my main OS (Win7 x64). I have an old Photoshop CS2 installer with the product key (which now doesn't work as the activation server has been disabled). Can I use this old PS CS2 on Virtual WinXp system? So, can I use the CS2 installer and serial from this page: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html? (And I hope, Adobe doesn't bundle a spyware in this version for download, right?)
Thanks.

That's the intent of that published version - to allow people with legitimate CS2 licenses who need to be able to run CS2 but can no longer activate it with their original serial numbers.
-Noel

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See "Troubleshoot activation problems (Acrobat 7.0, Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 on Mac OS X)."
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John,
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Hi
Thank you for asking . It just says that my name and serial # don`t match,
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page came on saying the usual thing that I have a 30 day grace period if I
don`t activate right away.
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the time being
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I have this CS2 installed in my laptop also, is it maybe the software
thinks I have installed it into to many computers, because the on on the
messed up HD is not de-activated.
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Hi,
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