CS4 on vista, deactivate in safe mode

I have a friends laptop that has a very damaged installation of Vista home premium. It is so messed up that although it can start in safe mode it is easier to just remove her files and format the disk.
She has CS4 design premium on it so somehow I assume i have to start it to deactivate it so it doesn't swallow her activation code when we put it back on. As the installer wont work in safe mode, is there any way to do this, or deactivate this machine manually?
I am not currently sure if I can get networking to work, or if I am keen to try as I suspect there may have been a virus on this machine.

it's a local very plain Server on the University with only plain Text messages- when i booked a group on next startup there are not available ...
but there was very old stuff in - more than 10 Yeaers - and many postings - more than 500MB - so its ok ..
there was a version update 2 ?? years ago from where it was not working ...
after deleting the old stuff it seems to work ...
matthew

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