CS5 Freezes While Starting Up. Can anyone help?

So I have had Photoshop CS5 for a few years now and about a week ago the program started to become slow and would sometimes freeze up while using the brush strokes, regardless of which tool and drawing utensil I used (mouse or tablet). So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it but now the program won't even start up! It starts and then gets to the "Initalizing..." part then stops and freezes, forcing me to close the program by force. I have uninstalled and reinstalled over and over again but with hardly any luck. And the one time the program did fully "run" it quickly froze and again, I had to close it by force.
I have installed the latest drivers for my computer, an ASUS G46V
It has a Intel Core i5-323M CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory (RAM): 8.00 GB (7.89 GB usable)
64-bit Operating system with a x64 based processor
and is running on Windows 8.1
Any help is appreciated. I have tried running Photoshop with and without the tablet but it always had the same results. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and I have run the program as an administrator.
I also downloaded the free version of CS2 and the same problem seems to be appearing...which makes me think this might be a computer problem, but again, I need help with this. I rely on Photoshop for my art and I have commissions to do and finish.So I would like to get this fixed as soon as possible.

Killerwolf1020 wrote:
I did get CS2 for free from here https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads.
So unless I have to pay for this eventually then I guess it is free.
Yes you did were you honest when you agreed with the terms there? CS2 is not Free.
The serial numbers provided as a part of the download may only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products.
Killerwolf1020 wrote:
I have worked with brush sizes and it slows down for the large brush sizes regardless of the size of the canvas, but unfortunately I have a unfinished commission on a pretty large canvas, and resizing it not only freezes the program but it causes the picture to loose quality in looks. So I have tried all that.  And this is a problem be cause this program literately just randomly stopped functioning properly. For months it worked fine with little to no problems, and then it just suddenly getting issues.
I only see lag with large tipped wet mixer brushes when I paint on image where I viewing actual pixel.  Its a totally different story when you paint view fit on screen when you canvas size is large.  I looks like Photoshop is painting the millions of pixels on the larges canvas tile by tile and scaling the tiles theo the zoomed out scalde dowv image its displaying for you to see. You not seeing the actual image being painted..

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