Problem with my CS2

My CS2 will not open when I click on the shortcut, it has been ok for at leat the last 12 months but yesterday would not load acan anyone help

Please do a forum search.
This comes up very often, sometimes two or three times per day.
In a nutshell: Adobe has decommissioned the CS2 activation servers so your original copy is useless now. Adobe has provided a new version of CS2 that does not require activation, as well as a new serial number for legitimate CS2 license holders:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads

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Problems with Photoshop CS2
I originally purchased this software several years ago. At time I was running Microsoft Windows XP.
This computer recently was replaced with a Dell running Windows 8.I reloaded my CS2 on this computer & it ran fine with a few exceptions as follows;
when the software comes up initially I get a message that says “could not complete your request because of program error”. Hitting OK allows me to continue using the software .
When I try to activate a function using CTLR or ALT keys I get this message “required application failed to load and the product cannot continue. Please reinstall the application”. This causes the application to abort.
Reloading my CS2 continues to generate the same messages when I depress the CTLR or ALT keys.

Your original copy is obsolete and Adobe is offering a free replacement you are entitled to. Download and use that and that should clear it up for you.
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-activation-end-life.ht ml
Download this copy of CS2 and use the serial number provided next to the download link.

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Also, how do I move or remove rulers once placed and why is it that if I use the arrow keys on the end of a line it moves it more than one pixel? How do I keep a line straight? It's so much easier in photoshop but I need to learn.
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That is not the Color palette, it is the Swatches palette. It's where pre-mixed colours, gradients, and patterns can be stored and quickly applied. The file you are using has no swatches.
You can add your own by loading swatches from any other Illustrator file or from the libraries that ship with Illustrator. You can also add a swatch by mixing a colour in the Color palette and either dragging the colour onto the Swatches palette or clicking one the New Swatch icon (The page icon next to the trash can).

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I noticed while running activity monitor that Photoshop is utilizing a very small percentage of my system's RAM. Approximately 475 MB of the total 8 GB RAM and 1.07 GB of harddrive space for the scratch disk. This seems odd as there is over 6 GB of free RAM while this is happening.
I've uploaded a screen capture of my activity monitor while Photoshop is hanging. Note that the CPU percentage is above 98%. That's an awful lot of RAM going unused.
http://www.tramad.com/Memory.png
Any idea what's going on here? Could it be a corrupt file or font?

Doesn't completely make sense as I've been using this particular machine for almost two years without any problems working in much more complex and much larger high-res .psd files. I doubt that's what the issue is here. I'm starting to think the file became corrupted...
Hard to believe that Adobe/Apple haven't issued a fix for the RAM issue yet.
I also run routine CRON maintenance using Cocktail and have no other issues with any software....

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Hello all-
I have a brand new mac that is less that a week old.
2 x 3 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2.
I used migration assistant from my older G4, Mirrored door model.
I have had nothing but problems with Photoshop and InDesign.
They have been running slow and crashing nonstop.
I reinstalled twice and transferred the activation and I can't figure out what the problem is.
The only thing I can think of the there was a problem using Migration assistant?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Kevin

Migration Assistant should be fine for data, but avoid like the plague for PPC applications (and support files and plug-ins).
MA = MolAsses - so your "hunch" is right on.
You WILL be in need of more RAM. Depending on the size of files and programs open, but figure if 14% boost to 3GHz over the 2.66, you must want to wring the most - 2GB is an okay minimum. 4 x 1GB straight from Apple, with 2 x 1GB on each Riser. You want to use both Risers, all four memory channels.
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Hi,
I noticed many failure on CS2 softwares, i didnt upgrade to CS3 and iam wondering if it it worth the investment looking how much messy CS2s is to my projects so far. I thought they brought in CS2 to solves the many glitches in CS, but...
1 - Illustrator CS2 doesnt not export to gif. I am working on an e-commerce project having to customize hundreds of gif pictures. I am more fluent with Illustrator than Photoshop plus the many vector tools makes it more useful for this kind of project.
- This forces me to try some complicated workflow where i do the design first in illustrtor then export to .psd so i can simply save out as gifs. This is where i found many other problems:
2- When i open these psd that took so many hours to design, i found out photoshop interprets everything poorly. It messed up all the dimensions and sizes.
3- I set document sizes in Illustrator to small sizes even if i imported in a large picture that i use as background (moving and rotating that background allows me to create many variations of my background keeping the same tone), but the exported psd didnt respect the doc settings and instead of cropping brings in the entire file resolution.
4- I dunno if any of you guys have tried to do anything like selecting many layers and rescale them in photoshop? Or simply select a text layer and resize it in photoshop? really painy. Such a breeze in other applications like flash or illustrtor appear so heavy in photoshop, i ended up losing all the harmony of my works, if not my sanity.
Please if someones have ever gone thru all these nightmares before can you explain me how you found way around it would be very nice and helpful.
Thank you for reading.
PS: Had same problem trying to open some design i did and sliced in Fireworks 8 too, when opened in photoshop CS2 everything where 3 times bigger!

There's nothing wrong with the program. Refer to this:
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It works fine.
Right click on the "setup.exe" file on the CS2 install disc and then click on "properties", then click on the "compatibility" tab.
Click on the box for "Run this in compability mode" and in the pull down select "XP sp2".
Click "apply" and then "ok".
Now go back to "setup.exe" and click on "Run as administrator" and CS2 should load fine.

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Wow, My first time back to the forum in 3 month and it's all new!
Since I found "the" answer to a new problem I've encountered I'd like to share it.
I filmed part of a wedding with a little canon still camera (S3IS) on a 4 gb SD card and when I tried to import some of the clips (AVI) in PP2 it failed. A msg told me that my clips were either on the wrong format or corrupted! Strange because I have done it b4 whithout problem and also the first 20 clips were ok. as for the others they opened normally on windows media player and also played ok on movie maker. I also tried to load them into SceneAnalyser Live but without success. However I decided to make a movie out of my problem clips on Movie Maker and ended up with a MVW file that loaded ok into premiere! I tried to change the extention to this format but no go! I wonder if I converted all my faulty AVI files in this format wether it would work, most likely I imagine as I think this is what I actually did, but the long way around.Anyway it's quite a relief to know I will be able to use my clips.
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Eddy r u listening?
Why me?
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Let me start with, I'm asking questions from a Mac perspective.
What are you using for font management? Are the fonts located in the same location on each machine? How are the fonts activated? (And, are the fonts auto-activated on each machine? Or is that just a Mac feature?)
>In addition, when someone uses a new font, it's only available locally.
I don't understand. That font is only installed on that one machine?
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Hi all,
At first I have to say I still use Photoshop CS2 because of my company bureaucracy. Whatever.
I was using PS usually. But since about a week ago my PhotoShop started acting weird.
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However, when I select a tool (e.g. Brush) my mouse pointer should be transformed into the shape with the same radius as the selected brush radius and shape. Ok, it does, but when I hold the mouse button to start filling something, it gets back into the normal mouse pointer.
I have already updated using adobe updater, I have tried reinstalling, I have even opened the Welcome Screen with the hope to get something back to normal, but obviously I had no success.
I've searched some forums and support sites but couldn't find anything usefull. I hope you guys can help me!
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Actually the mouse works with any program including other adobe programs.
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Tim

What Bob means is that the system reports the latest version of the application available on your computer. It's not reporting about the file itself.
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I'll try that. In the meantime, here's something for you. The following script (saved as test.vbs) actually WORKS from the command prompt "cscript test.vbs":
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